Josh Fox Quotes

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• We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not…
• I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.
• 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.
• I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.
• 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…
• I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition…
• 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…
• According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.
• Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.
• 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…
• Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.
• 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.
• 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…
• I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of…
• 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…
• Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

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