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Josh Fox
American Director
Born: 1972
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The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows. Josh Fox
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I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation. Josh Fox
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What we've got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn't be further from what we really need to do to address climate change. Josh Fox
Change Address Further Embrace Got Climate Climate Change Really Export Wholesale Internationally Need
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story. Josh Fox
Environmental History Ran Spill Somehow Catastrophe Like Greatest Reporting Story Interference Companies Gas
We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that direction. And we have to do it fast. Josh Fox
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According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist. Josh Fox
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Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry. Josh Fox
Suffering People Thousands Thousands Of People More Globe Industry America Hands Oil Across Many Gas
A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen. Josh Fox
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Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them. Josh Fox
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In the U.S. you have a system of lobbying and influence on our policy and law makers which is incredibly pronounced. The gas industry spent $250 million getting an exemption from our Safe Water Act. Every one of those dollars is toxic; a contaminant in our political system. It disrupts the normal flow of justice, science, fact and reporting. Josh Fox
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Culture is the air we breathe all around us. Josh Fox
Culture Air All-Around Around Breathe Us
'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing. Josh Fox
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We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear. Josh Fox
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The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense. Josh Fox
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People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set. Josh Fox
People Treat Kind Citizens Some Data Unreliable Like Source Set
First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fracking for natural gas. It is a lie that was bought into by a lot of Democrats and a lot of environmentalists because I think they wanted to have a win against something; against coal. Josh Fox
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I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications. Josh Fox
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Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system. Josh Fox
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The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now considered expendable. Josh Fox
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When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about. Josh Fox
Government You Noise Big Our Corporate Citizens About Something Make Terrifying Influence
As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on. Josh Fox
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I've been arrested three times. I don't like getting arrested, but it's not so bad when it's an organized form of nonviolent disobedience. It's something appealing to a higher law. Josh Fox
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I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many years. I won't tell anybody what it is. Josh Fox
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Water is a cure-all. Water is everything. You can't get better without drinking lots of water, and you can't drink water unless it's clean. Josh Fox
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