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Truth Has Changed, The
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.
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.
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Published November 27, 2018
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June 14, 2018
I like Josh Fox because he is passionate. He is passionate enough to follow his passions, no matter where they take him, no matter what damage they do his Linked In profile (if he even has one), no matter what kind of bullies, be they police or corporate fixers, he encounters. The Truth Has Changed is a fast moving, stylish mind dump of his adventures to date.
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.
David Wineberg
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.
David Wineberg
January 25, 2019
"We are the first generation to know with absolute scientific certainty what the global apocalypse will look like. That means we have a choice."
December 9, 2020
Powerful and convincing!
Who would have thought you could experience a powerful dramatization of the process of connecting the dots between Climate Change Activism, Hurricane Sandy, Deepwater Horizon, Rex Tillerson, The DNC, Cambridge Analytica, a Sweat Lodge Ceremony and Truth?!
Well, Josh Fox and Bill McKibben did it in this persuasive presentation of the way our understanding of Truth and the Impending Calamity of Climate Change are colliding.
Read it or, as I did, listen to it and weep. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Who would have thought you could experience a powerful dramatization of the process of connecting the dots between Climate Change Activism, Hurricane Sandy, Deepwater Horizon, Rex Tillerson, The DNC, Cambridge Analytica, a Sweat Lodge Ceremony and Truth?!
Well, Josh Fox and Bill McKibben did it in this persuasive presentation of the way our understanding of Truth and the Impending Calamity of Climate Change are colliding.
Read it or, as I did, listen to it and weep. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
October 8, 2018
Josh Fox is paranoid, but for good reason. As the creator of the documentary Gasland, he was targeted as a communist, arsonist, terrorist, Nazi, etc., by the oil lobby. This sent him down a Behind the Looking Glass odyssey into how modern big data analytics has and is changing the world. His description of how Facebook, Google, Target, etc., are able to mine your simple clicks and "likes" into a profile that probably knows more about how you'll react to various stimuli than you do ... which makes the approach of the psycho-crats far more than just targeted marketing that we shrug off.
He connects some dots that you don't see connected very often, as journalists and politicos fear being marginalized by the establishment. Josh has already been marginalized, so he doesn't care ... he just tells it as he sees it and has experienced it. It all makes for a lightning-fast read that, yes, feels pretty important.
He connects some dots that you don't see connected very often, as journalists and politicos fear being marginalized by the establishment. Josh has already been marginalized, so he doesn't care ... he just tells it as he sees it and has experienced it. It all makes for a lightning-fast read that, yes, feels pretty important.
May 25, 2023
Definitely the most bizarre book I have listened to this year. Although I disagree with a great deal of what the author says, I give it three stars for a strange entertainment style. Largely the book is a dramatic rant of someone highly political and myopic. He makes broad overly general observations while ignoring details that make a world of difference. For example, at least twice he states unequivocally that we all know that renewable energy could provide all our energy needs if we could just silence the nasty oil industry. To that I ask, what about all the mining carried out by children in china for the batteries that would be needed? What do we do with the batteries at the end of their life since they are toxic? What about the raw materials necessary for constructing wind mills and solar panels, and what about the vast amount of land left barren due to the massive square footage required by the devices? What about the injury to wild life and sea life already affected by the projects we have built? I could go on. These matters are simply not simple enough for emotional banter regardless of how entertaining. That being said, he is a talented artist, with a little more real education he could do great things.
December 5, 2022
He talks about some interesting stuff, but manages not to say a whole lot about it. The whole audio book was like having a weirdo sit next to you in the pub and go on a possibility chemically induced rant.
August 4, 2019
A quick and important read. It opens your eyes as to what is going on with the world.
November 13, 2024
A dance of words on the page, a play in your mind, on the world stage. “That kid of love, it surrounds you and envelops you. It protects you.” - Josh Fox
May 15, 2022
Had to read for a class
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