Josh Fox

I like Josh Fox because he is passionate. He is passionate enough to follow his passions, no matter where they take him, no matter what damage they do his Linked In profile (if he even has one), no matter what kind of bullies, be they police or corporate fixers, he encounters. The Truth Has Changed is a fast moving, stylish mind dump of his adventures to date.

Unlike many, he is growing from his encounters. He now understands that “Everybody has their truth that they won’t compromise.” Regardless of the truth. (That alone explains the USA in 2018.)That politics is not only no solution, it is a big part of the problem. That it is not easy to recognize the truth in all the noise. He understands that the world is actually run on behalf of giant corporations, mostly fossil fuels exploiters. And that governments both democratic and autocratic cater to their whims. Those whims involve unrestricted movement to build, access to data, and increased sales. At the expense of the air, soil, water, biodiversity, the very Holocene Climate itself, and even their own customers. Doesn’t matter. We are now clearly on borrowed time, and they don’t care.

The book is a script/companion piece of his new one-man show, to be launched the day the book is launched – September 11, 2018. Fox was a 9/11 first responder, a documentary producer (Gasland) on the effects of fracking, a hard-working, well-traveled speaker, and someone trying to obtain and then maintain perspective on all the self-imposed destruction we heap on ourselves daily. It isn’t easy from the inside, and the book/play is a voyage of discovery.

It is not a descent into hell, but neither are there many uplifting moments. We are disobeying Warren Buffet’s First Law: when in a hole, stop digging. Dig we must, it seems. And there are precious few saying stop.

But Fox gets it: “We are the first generation to know with absolute, scientific certainty what the global apocalypse will look like,” he concludes without hysterics, anger or even defeat. He’s a good one to have around.

David Wineberg… (meer)

America is on the verge of energy independence through "natural" gas exploration, thanks to Halliburton and a host of other brave entrepreneurs. So why is Josh Fox not grateful? Fearful that his beloved backyard river is in peril of being polluted, Fox sets out on a fact-finding mission across the country. What he finds is that "fracking," the practice of using a chemical stew to assist in the drilling process, is laying waste to our groundwater and land. The director/crusader on a mission has become a familiar sight in contemporary documentary. But somehow Fox breaks through this cliché with an astonishing mix of shoe-leather journalism and the idiosyncratic experimentalism of his theater background. A modern Paul Revere hell-bent on saving us from ourselves, Fox's achievement promises a hip new era of urgent advocacy films.… (meer)