Just on the "fracking": <But I do very strongly believe that digging up and "fracking" the planet at a very fast increasing rate and then burning the stuff we dig up is very severely destroying the only world, particularly its atmosphere, we have and can live on.> It's a rude sounding word which seems to be the main problem with it. It also suggests Earth is being broken up into little pieces.
But don't worry about that. The whole crust has been ground up, subducted, erupted out of volcanoes, ripped apart in earthquakes, eroded into plains, compressed, dissolved and redone again. Look at the Dolomites, White Cliffs of Dover, Bryce Canyon and Grand Canyon for example. Huge erosion making human fracking efforts insignificant.
There are peaceable parts of the crust, such as the pre-Cambrian shields which are floating happily without subduction or plate grinding going on. But places like New Zealand, aka "The Shaky Isles" are under constant attack by geophysical processes. A seismograph wouldn't show fracking at all. Look, it's really still right now, but those tiny movements would be much bigger than fracking noise: geonet.org.nz
If nobody told you where fracking is being done on the planet, you could travel the world for all your life and never find a fracking site. Same for Butte mine which was considered destruction of the planet long ago, but it's now a nice lake. The world is a big place and as Tony Hayward said of the oil spill, the ocean is huge and the spill was tiny.
Don't worry about it.
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