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

I don't understand the hostile reviews about this very powerful documentary or the guy who made it. There is nothing fake about it, as it takes us on a world journey demonstrating the devastating impact that climate change IS HAVING on the planet. The people are real people and the 97% of scientists who have evaluated the data, the facts, concur that the earth's climate is warming at an unprecedented rate but that it is man-made. NASA has published its own statement on this crucial topic and has made a list of all the scientific societies and government agencies that concur with this irrefutable position: "Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal." - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change See: http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ People are hostile to this position, not because they have studied the facts, but because they are attached to a way of life driven by corporations (oil industry, meat and dairy industry, consumption) that they selfishly refuse to give up. In the face of the data, it is hard not to lose hope, but this documentary shows that hope remains alive!

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.

We went to see this documentary in our town this week during its tour and found that the content is motivating. We saw that we must make a commitment to speak out to our government representatives and become a community of people that are willing and able to fight oil and gas industries which have no conscience. This documentary made me get up and dance in tribute to the earth. The documentary tells us that green solutions are attainable; our nation has all the technology to do. This documentary helps us to see we are not alone in the fight against gas, oil, and fracked-gas infrastructure that we do not want or need, that those industries do not care that they are causing our planet great harm, and that we need to unite our nation toward going green. The documentary is long but worth the time spent watching it.

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'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...