Es passiert in ganz Amerika - ländliche Grundbesitzer wachen eines Tages mit einem lukrativen Angebot der Energiekonzerne auf, die gerne Ihr Grundstück pachten würden. Der Grund? Die Unternehmen hoffen auf ein Reservoir zu treffen, welches auch "Saudi Arabien des
natürlichen Öls" genannt wird zu treffen. Halliburton hat einen Weg entwickelt das Benzin aus dem Boden holen mit einem Vorgang der sich "Fracking" nennt - und plötzlich könnten die Vereinigten Staaten davor stehen eine unmittelbare Energiemacht zu werden.
Über den Autor Josh Fox
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The only journalist ever arrested in Congress for doing journalism, Josh Fox is the man who made “fracking” a household word as writer/director/narrator of the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning film GASLAND. His short videos on climate interruption, Standing Rock, Bernie Sanders, and fracking have gone viral and been viewed over sixty million times. Josh is the founder and producing artistic director of the International WOW Company, which has produced over forty new plays to consistently rave reviews. He has toured to over five hundred American cities to speak to people about climate change and the proliferation of fossil fuel extraction, raising awareness at the grass roots. Josh’s other films include the award-winning How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change, and AWAKE, a Dream from Standing Rock. Josh has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Real Time with Bill Maher, CBS World News Tonight, The Colbert Report, The Diane Rehm Show, NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, Last Call with Carson Daly, All In with Chris Hayes, Democracy Now!, and many other national broadcasts, and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, and many other national and metropolitan publications. He lives in New York City and New Orleans. The Truth Has Changed is his first book.
