Josh Fox famous quotes

03-24-2025

Independent documentary isnt beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. Its a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.
-- Josh Fox

#Fashion #Independent #Media
When youre cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.
-- Josh Fox

#Moving #Fighting #Two
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 we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.
-- Josh Fox

#Thinking #Worry #Energy
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

#People #Greed #Lines
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

#Betrayal #Air #Water
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

#Motivation #Believe #Self
We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.
-- Josh Fox

#Energy #World #Environment
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

#Climate #Needs #Fracking
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 away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.
-- Josh Fox

#Thinking #Fossils #Energy
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

#Law #Oil #Safety
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.
-- Josh Fox

#Thinking #People #Corporations
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

#Thinking #People #Backyards
I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.
-- Josh Fox

#Night #Ideas #Support

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