Why are the public so unaware of their childrens safety

The Panacea thats now how some see it
The new and easy source of natural gas
No one charging what they like and threatening to raise
Its locally produced in fact
and so worthy of praise

America is out ahead, bore holes everywhere
Marcellus shale, just leaves me pale
With feelings of despair
I am old and weary, the repercussions they
Will not affect me actually, its the children
that will pay

People have been suffering,and some
have lost a lot
Fresh water from the taps, not any more
oh! no they’ve got
Contaminated water, undrinkable alas
Aquifers are being breached
and lakes an pools, en masse

Destroyed by fracking chemicals
The water loss immense
Potable not ever
You see it makes no sense
Its very very selfish in a world
where water’s scarce
Already we see people grubbiing in the mud
no purse

Deep enough to find the water that once
might have been
Flowing from that wondrous ground
From those verdant slopes of green
Some are being forced each day to drink
some nasty stuff
And America is wasting much more than enough

Each drill hole can take 13 million
gallons
Actually from 2, to 13 in effect
Laced with such obnoxious filthy chemicals
Nothing any of us living dare expect

Its sucked up from the shale
and stored in ponds and then
Shipped by tanker into deeper wells
by ignorant men
It gets into the water, it comes back to our land
Radon, radiation and a cocktail most can’t stand

But honestly for fear of panicking readers
it is true
Fracking is an evil that is going to hurt you
Bradford County, Pennysylvania see hell on earth Today
Insanity is clearly in the souls of men I’d say

Compounded by those dollar bills
But my God what they do
Is completly screw up environments
yea and your land too
Imagine 40,000 gallons of some toxic stew
That bubbles out of no where
Yes mate all over you

Your land, your house, your garden
the ponds, the rivers too
The reservoirs, it soaks into the earth
this frightening brew
And forever it will stay there it does not
biodegrade
Shale gas leaves its legacy
which will just never fade

And as we waste much energy in fracturing our food
Our children will be forced to watch
The toxins just exude
From them, this is the evil
That we shall leave behind
A few made heaps of money
but the rest of us were blind

We had eyes, but we failed to see
We had souls but destroyed
Everything around us
Which our children can’t avoid
For cancers and leukamia
Will be rampant, in every school
Death will march on in there
and take out, one and all.

Don’t let the bastards do it
Be man enough to say
Take your fracking chemicals
and just go on your way
Our homelands are so sacred
We’d rather now use less
Than let you turn our precious
land into a complete mess.