The Trump Administration's recent attempts to achieve "energy dominance" via fracking and gas exports has been rightly met with serious concerns by environmentalists throughout Europe and the wider world as a move that will put the environment in peril and hold Europeans hostage to US exports. What has received less attention, although it is equally significant, is fracking's potential to forever undermine the chances for Third World sovereignty, Palestinian activism, and a global redistribution of wealth under a regime of degrowth. In July 2017, the Trump administration unveiled the term "energy dominance" to describe a key plank in the American plan for global economic and strategic hegemony. But although the State Department under former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson has pushed the policy into the limelight, it has long been an aim of the US, especially under President Obama, whose TTIP and TPP trade deals would have greatly aided American companies, l...