GASLAND

Gasland
Directed by: John Fox

John Fox is the director of a documentary called “Gasland”. In this documentary we see that Fox is offered $100,000 for his land that is located on Pennsylvania’s Delaware River. Fox then decided that he is going to do some of his own research on fracking. 

Throughout the film we see Josh come in contact with others who reside on drill sites across the country, and what was mentioned in this film was absolutely horrifying. One because the water that is being used in households is contaminated and cannot be used and nobody is doing anything about it. However, the most terrifying thing that comes to mind when I saw this film was I had never heard about this problem until I saw this documentary. 

In this documentary we see Josh Fox take on a twenty-four state wide search on hydraulic fracturing. Fox encounters all different harmful effects that the water has on people as well as the environment. For starters, out of all the twenty-four states and the water that Fox comes in contact with, none of them are clean. The waters are foggy brown/grey combinations as well as flammable and these people are being told that it is safe to drink them. I’m sorry, but last time I checked anything flammable you probably shouldn’t drink... especially if its not meant to catch on fire (*cough, cough* water).

 Another thing to keep in mind that you may not know is that where Josh Fox’s home is it sits onto of the country’s largest unfiltered water supply that is going out to millions of americans as well as those who reside in New York City. If you are one whom lives in New York, this is something to think about. Would you want this happening to you?

Josh Fox makes it apparent to say that today, society is still blinded by the harmful affects of hydraulic fracturing and people certainly are unknowledgeable about this information that is being provided by Fox. What Fox explains in his film is rater simple, it comes off as a bad idea so why do people still insist on doing it? When will it stop? Fox is most certainly right about the issue on fracking and lack information that we are actually being told about fracking. Up until this film, I had no idea what fracking is... Now I do and I don’t see why people frack when they know just how harmful it can be on our environment. 

Why is it that we are not being informed of fracking? Why is it that most people have heard of fracking, yet they do not actually know what it is? As a younger generation we are going to be the once that can make a change because we have the knowledge as well as the ability to actually do something about it and make a change before it is too late. It is our job to inform others on the dangers hydraulic fracturing has on our environment because without the knowledge on this, history will eventually repeat it self and will bound to become a problem yet again. 

Sincerely, 
(newly cautious about the environment) Tiffany.