During World War II, one of the most ferocious battles took place in the South Pacific in an area referred to as Tarawa, an atoll within the archipelago called Kiribati -- "Bloody Tarawa" the battle was dubbed.
There are about 100,000 "permanent residents" of Kiribati. Because of climate changes and the associated global warming, the rising tides of the ocean will consume Kiribati. The battle lines have been drawn and the war for Kiribati is nonexistent but, unlike protecting the world from the oppression that was the opposition in World War II, we are too late to save her.
Arguing the pros and cons of fracking is essentially a distraction to the main issue, which is that planet Earth is "cooked" and cannot tolerate more hydrocarbons from wherever and however they are dug.
Environmentalists have been silenced, politicians have their pockets lined, the robber barons (the world conglomerates of coal, gas and petroleum) have won the day. Concerning tomorrow?
Let's ask the inhabitants of Kiribati.