How to Let Go of the World
· Earth Initiative, Reviews · Earth Body, Spring 2016Media Review: How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change
Directed by Josh Fox
Premiering on HBO, June 2016
In the beginning there was dancing. But before we get to that, we need to go back even further: In the beginning there was the Marcellus, a geologic formation of black shale that dates back to the mid-Devonian age and undergirds a wide swath of mid-Atlantic Appalachian terrain. Shale traps deposits of natural gas deep underground and it was this resource that in 2008 brought energy speculators to the rural homestead of Josh Fox. Eight years later, one can only wonder if the investors now regret having knocked on that particular door.
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