Earth Not Cooperating

How could this be? Doesn't Mother Earth know her place?

Two high-profile geothermal projects in the U.S. and Europe were both permanently halted late last week, after federal officials in both countries questioned their safety and propensity to cause earthquakes. Projects in Basel, Switzerland, and in northern California were both abandoned, raising questions about the danger of purposefully cracking open the Earth to extract its heat.

Just north of San Francisco. No jokes please. But um, was it right on the fault line? Or not.

Maybe if we told the Earth it was for peaceful development.