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America Ferrera on Years of Living Dangerously

Archive record

Original URL
globalcool.org/lifestyle/stuff/america-ferrera-on-years-of-living-dangerously
Section
Lifestyle
Published
2014-05-30
Written from
Wayback Machine capture of 2014-06-15

A recap of Winds of Change, an episode of Years of Living Dangerously in which the actress America Ferrera reported on organised opposition to wind power in the United States, and the New York Times writer Mark Bittman examined whether natural gas deserved its reputation as a cleaner alternative.

The recap argued that the episode had been misnamed, since what it documented was stagnation rather than change: renewable projects meeting well funded resistance while gas was promoted as the bridge fuel. It noted that the environmental case for gas released by fracking was, on the programme's own account, unsettled.

This is the one record in the set that sat under /lifestyle/stuff/ rather than /entertainment/, which appears to reflect how the original site filed the piece rather than any difference in what it was. English Wikipedia cites this address in its article on the series.