Boiling Down to MONEY$$$

I am just going to put it out there.  It appears to me that man will stop at no end to gain for himself. I guess I already knew that. It all boils down to how much higher on the money ladder man can get.  After reflecting on the two articles in class today-one from Fox news and one from the New York Times-it dawned on me that companies across the nation continue to drill for oil using a process that may be damaging to our environment. Even after a correlation has been to seismic activity in many states, including the one that we live in, they continue this madness.Uh- yeah-crazy right?
Four hundred and twelve companies have recently come to Arkansas to invest or profit from the damaging of our land and eventually our people.  They offer thousands of dollars to put well on people's land all across our state. Think about it!  Do we have to wait until a major disaster occurs and many human beings have been injured or killed for that matter before we resolve this issue for the citizens of our country? 
It states, in the article by Foxnews, that this recent seismic activity has resulted in at least three states-West Virginia, California, Texas and now Arkansas almost immediately after the introduction of fracking- the method for heating/extracting of pressurized water from the wells dug.  Pretty much- if it looks like a duck, it quakes like a duck -it waddles like a duck...pretty much -it is a "fracking duck."  What
will it take for man to put the interest of others first?