Fracking is shorthand for hydraulic fracturing.
Are you able to answer the 4 questions attached. I need roughly a paragraph for each question (more is ok if needed). These are just discussion not an essay.For today, I need at least question 1 or 2 and question 3 or 4. Tomorrow the other 2 questions can be answered. We can adjust the time accordingly.Question 1As you think about drinking water, do some research on a new form of energy production-Fracking. What is fracking? How does it effect the environment?Here is a story to start:http://stories.weather.com/frackingQuestion 2As we think about the relationship between government, lobbyists and science, we need tounderstand the concept of ‘the power elite’. Do some research on C.Wright Mill’s notion of thepower elite. To whom is it referring? Do we see evidence of the power elite today?For example:http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/10/the-power-elite-connections-betweenbusiness-and-politics-in-the-u-s/Do some research and tell us what you find!Question 3What impact does the politicization of science have on our country? Does it impact theproduction of knowledge? The use of knowledge? Does it impact technological development?Medical development? Does it impact our health?And lastly, how do other industrialized countries handle science? Is it politicized?Question 4As you think about how science and technology have changed our lives, do some research onthe term McDonaldization.. What is McDondalizaation? Who benefits from it? How has itchanged our lives? Is it good or bad?Check out this site: http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/010/mcdonsoc.htmlHow does the internet impact McDonalization? Does it increase it? Challenge it? Should wecall the way in which the internet is changing our world ‘Googlization"?
