The Future on Fire: What you Need to Know about Fracking

1131 Mosse Humanities Building

Taylor Brobry argues that hydraulic fracking has compromised the habitability of the planet. With plummeting oil prices, will fracking go away? Brorby, the editor of the country's first anthology of creative writing on fracking, Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America, will provide an overview of the current state of fracking, the future of our dependence on oil, and ways literature can help us create a new way of living on the planet.

 Taylor Brorby is the reviews editor for Orion Magazine. A fellow at the Black Earth Institute, his work has appeared in High Country News, the Northern Plains Ethics Journal, Orion Magazine, and is forthcoming from Earth Island Journal. He is a blogger for The Huffington Post, writes essays on music and nature for Minnesota Public Radio. He is currently at work on a collection of essays and a collection of poetry, both related to oil development in North Dakota.

Sponsored by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the American Indian Studies Program, and the Department of English.