Fonda has been protesting weekly during her Fire Drill Fridays climate change march since announcing she was moving to Washington 'to be closer to the epicenter of the fight for our climate.' Her participation has ended in multiple arrests.
On Tuesday, the 81-year-old actress gave an impassioned speech at the National Press Club about the"climate emergency," where she discussed the"stranglehold the fossil fuel industry has on our political process."
"This year saw atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases hit the highest level ever recorded in human history," she said."While our window of opportunity to do something is quickly closing, fossil fuel companies are frantically expanding new drilling, mining, fracking and exporting." Fonda continued:"The fossil fuel industry has controlled the U.S. government and too many other governments for far too long. This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale."The Oscar winner said that according to climate scientists, we have the technology to"transition to clean, renewable energy," despite misinformation from politicians and corporations.
"I beg people to think about how they can ratchet up their activism on climate," Fonda said. "Not as an individual but in concert with others, in ways that will awaken more people to the urgency and with a focus on changing policy, shifting power, electing brave people who aren’t scared of bold actions in the face of this crisis."
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