text: The prescriptions put forward by the degrowth crowd, says Bryce, are familiar. Nuclear energy is bad. Genetically modified foods are bad. Coal isnt just bad, its awful. Oil is bad. Natural gasand the process often used to produce it, hydraulic fracturing is bad. And it is no surprise that the Environmental Protection Agencythe most anti-growth governmental agencyhas just announced steps to require the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a technology that has been in use for more than a half century and one that has unlocked access to vast reserves of natural gas and oil.