Jane Fonda, promoting her movie '80 for Brady,' suggests that 'There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism.'
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Jane Fonda says climate crisis can be blamed on racism: ‘Where would they put the sh—? Not Bel Air.’
Last Updated: Jan. 28, 2023 at 11:08 a.m. ETFirst Published: Jan. 26, 2023 at 11:24 a.m. ET
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‘Sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, whatever, the war. If you really get into it … everything’s connected. There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism,’ says the 85-year-old activist
Jane Fonda appeared with her “80 for Brady” co-stars Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno and Sally Field on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” this week. Fonda, asked about her decades of social activism, said the climate-change crisis essentially comes down to racism.
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Actress, writer and activist Jane Fonda, whose protests have landed her in jail more than once, blamed the worst of climate change on racism during an interview to promote her new movie on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
Fonda appeared with her “80 for Brady” co-stars Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno and Sally Field on the talk show this week, where the movie stars were asked to reflect on what motivated them to get involved in social issues.
“Well, you know, you can take anything — sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, whatever, the war,” Fonda said. “And if you really get into it, and study it and learn about it and the history of it, everything’s connected. There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism.”
Moreno asked Fonda to explain, and she replied, “Where would they put the sh—? Where would they put the poison and the pollution?
“They’re not gonna put it in Bel Air. They’ve got to find someplace where poor people or indigenous people or people of color are living,” continued Fonda, herself worth an estimated $200 million after a six-decade career in entertainment. “Put it there. They can’t fight back. And that’s why a big part of the climate movement now has to do with climate justice.”
‘There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism.’
— Actress and activist Jane Fonda
Fonda’s not wrong about overdue efforts to address disproportionate pollution risk for underserved U.S. communities that often experience zoning overlap with emissions-spewing industries or landfills, or they reside in the shadows of heavily trafficked highways built directly through established neighborhoods.
The Biden-passed spending law known as the Inflation Reduction Act featured the largest effort in combating climate change to date, including $60 billion toward environmental justice, such as incentives for communities to upgrade to electric appliances and other efforts.
Globally, for the first time ever, rich nations, including a top-polluting U.S., will pay for the climate-change damage inflicted upon poorer nations. A deal called “loss and damage” in conference shorthand was struck during 2022’s annual United Nations gathering on climate change, but it took some wrangling to get the U.S. to sign on.
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Fonda’s climate activism was already making headlines in October 2019 when she was one of 16 people arrested on the U.S. Capitol steps during a rally. The actress was charged with “crowding, obstructing or incommoding.”
Fonda, who is 85, said she’s been inspired to rally against environmental harms by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who turned 20 earlier this month and began her activism with a solo sit-in in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018, when she was 15.
But she’s got a long history of activism. Fonda was given the infamous nickname “Hanoi Jane” after posing atop an anti-aircraft gun during a 1972 protest visit to North Vietnam.
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