Josh Fox Quotes
When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.
Fox, Josh, director. Gasland. HBO Documentary Films, 2010.
The problem of African Poverty as revealed by the media has had a strong emotional effect on many, especially the images of sick and undernourished children. This quotation and {583200} are good examples of sophisticated observers calling for anything to be done even though there was doubt that it would actually help reduce the problem. Specific efforts to reduce poverty in third world nations have been unfortunately not very successful. Many have called for continual and even greatly increased efforts despite the fact that success was doubtful. A few critics objected to the waste of resources and called for radical new approaches to foreign aid.
In politics the perception of success is in man ways more important than the reality. If a political campaign seems to be faltering, campaign contributions dry up, volunteers abandon their efforts, and the press diminishes coverage.
Josh Fox is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning 2010 documentary, Gasland. He is one of the most prominent public opponents of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. He is the founder and artistic director of a film and theater company in New York City, International WOW, and has contributed as a journalist to Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, NowThis, AJ+ and Huffington Post.
