July 8, 2013- by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor
I just watched Josh Fox’s Gasland 2. I am having trouble keeping the tears from my eye as I write this “review.”
As in Gasland 1, Fox takes us on a journey across America to show the devastation that our pursuit of natural gas has brought upon the environment, and very human beings who have been forced to live under the influence of the fossil fuel industry.
Sadly, the issues Fox brings to light are pretty much the same as those that I have encountered fighting coal in the Illinois Basin for thirty-seven years.. Extraction industries get their way because they own most politicians and the system is inherently corrupt.
Does it have to be that way? NO!
I don’t have the answer and I am sure Josh Fox feels the same, but with people like him and Michael Moore and all the people who have had the courage to stand up to the forces of evil that destroy people’s lives in the pursuit of greed, at least we can have hope that our values will ultimately prevail. If we don’t, our very existence is likely to succumb much sooner than we would ever believe.