The first connection is the idea of ​​environmental injustice. As we learned earlier in class, many times people of color or from lower economic backgrounds bear the brunt of environmentally unfriendly practices. This is clearly seen in the film: the people interviewed by Fox lived in what appeared to be poorer communities and in some cases in dilapidated houses and they were the ones who had wells in their backyards. This is similar to the article on environmental injustice in Warren County by Eileen McGurthy where lower class African Americans are fighting against the creation of a toxic waste dump in their backyards. This is the idea of ​​“I don't want it in my backyard” that you see in many different cases. If you're rich, you can get out of a situation like a natural gas well in your area by buying, but when you're poor and have no monetary power there's not much you can do. Another way this movie ties into the concepts we talked about in class is the idea that America always wants to produce more, more, and much more. Many times in the film you see miles and miles of different drilling sites covering the landscape. During the course we read articles that talked about how America constantly wants to produce more, a good example of this is the Dust Bowl. One of the reasons the dust bowl happened is because we didn't know when to do it