Review: Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change

Abstract

In their new book, Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change, editors Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore present harrowing excerpts of testimonies, arguments, court documents, and advisory opinions from the landmark Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change that took place in May 2018. Their meticulously curated volume artfully blends together diverse and moving eyewitness accounts, expert moral and legal testimonies, contextual essays, and advisory opinion summaries to shine a harsh, revealing light on the rampant environmental devastation and human rights and nature rights violations that fracking and other unconventional oil and gas operations have perpetuated for decades in vulnerable communities across the globe.