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Bezig met laden... The Truth Has Changeddoor Josh Fox
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The Emmy Award-winning creator of GASLAND tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. With a foreword by Bill McKibben. The rules have changed. The water has changed. The climate has changed. The truth has changed. We must change. In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very fabric of our lives--writing as a first responder, a reporter, a documentarian, and an activist--into art, literature, and at least one answer to the question of what the future holds. Our normal isn't normal anymore. The paradigm shift that global warming represents parallels a paradigm shift in how we process truth. Both deeply affect democracy. Josh Fox has had a front row seat--a first responder after 9/11, filming the Deepwater Horizon spill close up from the air and on the ground, a member of Bernie Sanders's delegation of the Democratic Platform Committee, risking his life to cross a bridge on Thanksgiving Day at Standing Rock, traveling the nation and the world, shooting his films, talking to people everywhere he goes. The Truth Has Changed is his first book, the companion to his new one-man show of the same title, and it's beautiful. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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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.
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