Top 25 Josh Fox Quotes (2025 Update)

Josh Fox Quote: “When youre cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.”

1. “When youre cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.”

2. “The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.”

— Josh Fox

3. “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

4. “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

5. “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.”

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6. “I’m a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.”

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7. “The first line in the first ‘Gasland’ is: ‘I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.’ I have not lost that sense.”

— Josh Fox

8. “Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That’s contamination of the political system.”

— Josh Fox

9. “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.”

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10. “I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.”

— Josh Fox

11. “I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, “Yeah, we’re finally doing something on climate!””

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

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

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14. “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.”

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15. “We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.”

— Josh Fox

16. “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

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17. “I don’t believe we’re only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.”

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18. “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

19. “I think we’re in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don’t think that’s even questioned.”

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20. “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

$Josh Fox Quote: “When you frack a well, you’re exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he’s doing it with natural gas.”$

21. “When you frack a well, you’re exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he’s doing it with natural gas.”

— Josh Fox

22. “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

$Josh Fox Quote: “What we’ve got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn’t be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.”$

23. “What we’ve got is the wholesale embrace of fracking domestically, internationally and for export. And this couldn’t be further from what we really need to do to address climate change.”

— Josh Fox

24. “I think ‘Gasland’ is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.”

— Josh Fox

25. “I have to have faith that we’re going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we’re going to do it before it’s too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.”

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

26. “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