Jane Fonda is using the full force of her considerable celebrity to help execute a relentless public pressure campaign to raise awareness.
A committed activist for most of her adult life, Fonda has long stood up to forces bigger than herself and held her ground . She’s opposed the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, supported the civil rights and feminist movements and fought for Native American land rights.
“I would wonder if perhaps humankind deserved the fate it had created,” Fonda writes. “Just get rid of us Homo sapiens ASAP and things will restore themselves.”“I knew this fatalist thinking was a cop-out, and I didn’t like myself for it,” she writes. What helped convince Fonda to fight for change was actually listening to what climate scientists were saying.,” Fonda says.
As with so many other things – school, work, major political conventions – the coronavirus pandemic has forced Fire Drill Fridays to go virtual. Each week, Fonda hosts, conducting video chats with prominent political, social and activist figures. There are also teach-ins with scientists, professors and other experts, and virtual rallies to help keep up the energy of the virtual volunteer army. Fonda says a recent Friday saw 600,000 people following across all platforms.
“What we learned from is the importance of having a robust federal government, that it be prepared, and that it listen to the experts, the scientists,” Fonda says. “I think people really realize with COVID how non-resilient the United States is in the face of increasingly extreme weather events. We are not ready.”Fonda is critical of President Donald Trump’s administration and. When asked whether she sees the coming election as a do-or-die moment for climate reform, Fonda doesn’t hesitate.
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