Latest Josh Fox Quotes from Interviews

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• The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground. Ground water is much better to drink than surface water because it filters out the bacteria that can cause all sorts of problems.

  Josh Fox

  Aquifers, Water, People

  "Gasland: The Fracking of America Josh Fox, Part I". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 6, 2012.

• There's something really happening and really moving, and it's exciting and it makes me very optimistic because it is going to be the engine for how we really combat climate change. Which is strong communities.

  Josh Fox

  Strong, Moving, Optimistic

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• It's the next phase of authorship of this country's energy future. It's gonna come from the people. It's not gonna be deus ex machina or Obama ex machina, or science ex machina. It's gonna be the people. It's not going to be a wind energy company that comes in and saves the day. It's going to be the people who figure this out.

  Josh Fox

  Country, Wind, People

  "Interview with Brett Brownell". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing democracy out there in rural Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in Pittsburgh.

  Josh Fox

  Taken, Philadelphia, Hopeful

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

  Josh Fox

  Running, Disappear, Policy

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• When you live in a watershed area, in a pristine area, and you could watch this whole place fall apart in front of your eyes, you don't sell your soul for a buck.

  Josh Fox

  Fall, Eye, Soul

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• 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.

  Josh Fox

  Conversation, Situation, Policy

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a people protection agency. And they're out there trying to do their job and do the science.

  Josh Fox

  Jobs, Agency, People

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make Environmental Protection Agency people feel better about their jobs. They're going out there, they're trying to protect Americans and then time and time and time again they get their knees cut off at the policy level.

  Josh Fox

  Jobs, Cutting, Feel Better

• For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire.

  Josh Fox

  Fire, Agency, Light

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• There are regulations all over the spectrum that have to be done to the existing situation right now. But the only policy that makes sense is a nationwide moratorium: no new fracking, no new fracked wells.

  Josh Fox

  Fracking, Done, Regulation

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

  Josh Fox

  Doors, People, Focus

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.

  Josh Fox

  Couple, Talking, Numbers

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• We should be moving vigorously towards renewable energy. The technology of which is right here right now.

  Josh Fox

  Moving, Technology, Energy

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!

  Josh Fox

  Hate, Climate, Yeah

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• Natural gas is a bridge fuel. But it's not a bridge - it's a gangplank. It's either a bridge in space or a bridge in time. The bridge in time we don't need. We have renewable technology right now.

  Josh Fox

  Technology, Bridges, Space

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

• It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

  Josh Fox

  Powerful, Focus, Bully

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.