How to Let Go of the World: and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change

I have been a fan of his style since Gasland. I had no idea where this would take me. It is an emotional journey told in many locations. It helps give a world view of the problems we face. Anyone calling this fake or bashing Josh Fox clearly has no sense of the enormity of the problem. It is good as an introduction to expanding environmental concerns, but also good for someone who knows quite a bit, but either wants to learn more through different angles or global beauty and alarm. My most admired activists are in it, plus very new ones adding their own view and work from around the globe. I love that Josh "interjects" himself. It is like you are on this journey with a friend. There is beauty, danger, fear, calm, pain, tragedy, and dancing. All interwoven with facts. It is the kind of journey where you appreciate a friend.

Is there really a guy out there who is so arrogant, so conceited, so self absorbed, and so redundant like this sentence? Yes there is. Josh is not a leader, he never has been. In fact, there are so many great people around the world that are leaders fighting for the environment and humanity that are not self-absorbed. This is a lesson Josh must still learn he's still an infant in the world of great humanity. I couldn't stand watching the film because of his creepy low droning, non-sensical voice. If you want a spoiler, I can't give you one, other than you're going to be bored out of your mind listening to the self promotions and lack of environmental coherency.

My hat is off, and salute every real activist out there who has been on the ground who has suffered, who still suffers, and who are still fighting for everyone and not just themselves.

And the title of this film should be given an award for the "dumbest film title of the year."

I've saw Josh's "GasLand" and it was really inspiring, this one however had something more. It showed me, at least, that giving up to despair it's not an option. Yes, the situation is dire...it's catastrophic ..it's how you want to say it,but it's not an excuse to stop doing something, you have so manny people who are fighting for their land...for their forests ...for their HOMES, and didn't stop and some actually won, why would you stop when they fought such a hard battle and you are staying and watching it from your comfortable sofa ? This films gives you...an impulse to keep going, keep the fight on, for a better world, for a better future.

I'll start off by saying Fox's 2011 documentary 'Gasland' was reasonably well made and raised some fair concerns about fraking.

"How to Let Go...' on the other hand, is little more than a hodgepodge of present day leftist mantras with little in the way of supporting evidence. Fox is trying to strike an emotional response from viewers with this material, and his target is really Western Civilization as much as it is actual climate change. We get a glimpse of rainforest destruction in Amazonia, beach erosion in the South Pacific, toxic air pollution in large cities in China,etc. Climate change is of course to blame for all these ills.

The problem here is that beach erosion is a natural process, and Fox never makes the case that climate change caused the specific erosion he shows in the film. Again, the message I get is that we're meant to ignore facts and reason, and to let emotion sweep over us.

The biggest fallacy in this sprawling mess of a documentary comes when Fox attempts to make the case that income and wealth inequality are driving forces in the creation of climate change. He goes on to provide no concrete evidence of this absurd claim.

He ends with this "moral imagination" nonsense. I imagine Chairman Mao and Stalin had tremendous moral imaginations, given Fox's logic.

Its hard to know what the exact takeaway is from such a sloppy, disjointed work. My best guess is that Fox wants Western Civilization to die off, and that humanity go back to primitivism. We should emulate the virtue of primitive Pacific Islanders and Africans living in mud huts.

This is documentary filmmaking at its very worst, its riddled with unsubstantiated claims, logical fallacies and hippy-dippy, contrived feel good moments. This callow, low-minded material is garbage aimed at uninformed millennials, which, unfortunately, there are a lot of...

What can you say about a documentary of the planet, by the planet (its peoples) and for the planet? How can we prevent life perishing from the Earth? Find personal time or even better, a community organized viewing, to take in Josh Fox's wide tour of our planetary address. It also includes a tour of emotions ranging from fear to the realization that we're not giving up. Why? Because, as said in this work, we have the inventions to move beyond burning fossil fuels and it's time to get them working full scale. Two stellar sections (among many) include dialogues with Tim DeChristopher; (while you and I are recycling, he's blockin' illegal oil and gas leases – yeah,) and Ella Chou, a Chinese environmentalist who places the term Moral Imagination right in front. Thank you, Ella Chou. The doc puts it out there;'Hi people, get un-afraid. Work together to protect the ecosystems of our brilliant, one- of-a-kind home called Earth.'