Hear Jane Fonda read from her new book 'What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action' via EW
Structured around different themes including water, migration, and human rights, the book foregrounds the voices of leading climate scientists and experts while laying out action we can take in our daily lives immediately. All proceeds from the book will go to Greenpeace.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What came first, Fire Drill Fridays or the book? And how did they feed each other?I went to D.C. and started Fire Drill Fridays. I had no intention of doing a book. Because we didn't even know if it was going to be successful. [But] I realized that that we had tapped into something that was very important: people's willingness to take a next step, to put their bodies on the line and engage in civil disobedience, and do it on a regular basis.
Because things need fixing. There's a lot wrong. Overarching over everything, whether it's racism, violence, misogyny, is the climate crisis. If we can't do what's needed in the next 10 years, which is to cut fossil fuel emissions in half, the scientists tell us that we will hit a tipping point beyond which we lose control. As far as we know, this is the only planet that has just the right amount of oxygen, the things that allow life.
I have been concerned about the environment since early in my life. I've made all the individual changes in my life to reduce my carbon footprint. But that's the onramp, that's the place to start. It's not the place to stop. I didn't know what steps to take after that. Until I read a book called, by Naomi Klein. That's what motivated me to go to Washington, and use what platform I have to try to alert people to the urgency of the crisis that we're facing.
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