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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.