Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Perennial revolutionary Jane Fonda has predicted that unless society acts to reduce CO2 emissions, democracy will become impossible.
‘Civil Disobedience Has to Become the New Norm.’ Jane Fonda on the Fight Against Climate Change
BY JUSTIN WORLAND UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 4:28 PM EDT | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 7:00 AM EDT
Jane Fonda wants to teach you about climate change. In the fall of 2019, Fonda regularly convened with fellow climate activists—and some of her Hollywood friends—on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building to call for a Green New Deal and other government action on climate change. The protests, which she called “Fire Drill Fridays,” deliberately ended in arrest.
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Do you think your book will get older voters to think about climate change and affect the way they vote?
They’re already thinking about it! The young climate strikers globally have had a lot to do with that. I’m targeting the people who notice the climate crisis and don’t know what to do about it. I’m teaching them more and then giving people things to do… Civil disobedience has to become the new norm. No matter who is elected in November.
Because of climate or everything else going on in the world?
Because of everything—and out of everything, what looms is the climate crisis. If we don’t cut our fossil fuel emissions in half by 2030, everything will not only become much, much harder, but a lot of things—equality, democracy, stability in our society—will become impossible. What I want to tell voters who say, “I can’t decide who to vote for. I don’t really believe in Joe Biden,” is, “Hey, I’d rather push a moderate than fight a fascist.”
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Read more: https://time.com/5885452/jane-fonda-climate-change-what-can-i-do/
Greens like Fonda completely fail to explain why life would become so much harder so quickly if the world warmed by a few degrees. Every degree of warming is like moving a bit closer to the equator – just not that big a deal.
Thanks to her movie The China Syndrome back in ’79 she helped destroy the nuclear power industry. She is no fan of human progress. Fear mongering is her stock in trade.
Democracy is already impossible, and it has nothing to do with climate change.
I think Jane has got the “solution” completely ass-backwards.
If we don’t eliminate democracy, we won’t be able to cut our fossil fuel emissions by 50% by 2030.
Poor Jane Fonda. She is living proof that one’s intellectual capacity does not increase with age if one does nothing to develop critical thinking skills.
Jane Fonda did apologize for her behavior in North Vietnam. I would have to say that is a step forward.
I served two tours in Vietnam from 1968 through 1969, so I think I have a right to voice an opinion on this subject.
I don’t know if Jane was sincere or not. If she was, I would accept her apology.
I think Jane Fonda is spectacularly clueless.
A timely NYTimes article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/style/jane-fonda-maureen-dowd.html
No matter how many times she has apologized for an ill-advised photo op on a North Vietnamese antiaircraft gun, explaining that being antiwar did not mean she was against American soldiers, she knows that some on the right will never let her live it down.
“I think, just as there are some people who actually believe that Trump is doing a good job and has fulfilled all his promises {TA: He is, and has], there are people who think that I was against the troops and that what I did was treasonous, and that probably will not change,” she said. “I never did let it stop me. I apologize. I try to explain the context. And then I move on.”
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Jane Fonda is naive and clueless but she is not an evil person. That’s why I accept her apology.
She may not be an evil person and one can accept her apology. Still doesn’t change the fact that what she did *was* treasonous.