It was perhaps in 2006 or 2007 that I first heard the word "fracking".
I was sitting in the chair at Fetterolf's Barber Shop, getting a trim. Next to me was a Penn State geology professor, talking with animation about the Marcellus shale; how new technology was going to upend the energy industry, and (what's more) how it was going to upend the economy of rural Pennsylvania. Know what? He was right.
Has the Hunger-GDP Relationship Crossed a Threshold?
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by Alix Underwood
The world looked poised to end hunger in the mid-2010s, after decades of
decline in the percentage of the population that is undernouris...
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