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"In the fall of 2019, frustrated with the obvious inaction of politicians and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda moved to Washington, DC to lead weekly climate change demonstrations on Capitol Hill. On October 11, she launched Fire Drill Fridays (FDF), and has since led thousands of people in non-violent civil disobedience, risking arrest to protest for action. In her new book, Fonda weaves her deeply personal journey as an activist alongside interviews with leading climate scientists, and discussions of specific issues, such as water, migration, and human rights, to emphasize what is at stake. Most significantly, Fonda provides concrete solutions, and things the average person can do to combat the climate crisis in their community. No stranger to protest, Fonda's life has been famously shaped by activism. And now, on the eve of the next presidential election, she is once again galvanizing the public to take to the streets. Too many of us understand that our climate is in a crisis, and realize that a moral responsibility rests on our shoulders. 2019 saw atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases hit the highest level ever recorded in human history, and our window of opportunity to avoid disaster is quickly closing. We are facing a climate crisis, but we're also facing an empathy crisis, an inequality crisis. It isn't only earth's life-support systems that are unraveling. So too is our social fabric. This is going to take an all-out war on drilling and fracking and deregulation and racism and misogyny and colonialism and despair all at the same time"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Fonda hopes that this work will help dispel the fatalism many in the West feel about climate change, assuming they have any awareness of its true impact at all, by including breakdowns at the end of each chapter about what people can do. Fonda summarizes the work of Yale researcher Anthony Leiserowitz, who studied awareness of climate change and concluded “the three countries where people are the least aware of the climate crisis are the United States, Canada, and the U.K.” because “those are the countries where individualism has taken root the most, especially in the last thirty years, fanned by right-wing news outlets like Fox and other Murdoch-owned media” (pg. 67). Fonda summarizes Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield’s interpretation of national security, namely that “money spent improving the living conditions here at home is national security spending. That, not war, is what makes us safe. How secure is a country where children are being poisoned by toxic fumes in their homes, where we are ill-prepared for a pandemic, where too many can’t afford health care and a decent education, and millions are homeless?” (pgs. 86-87). Describing the threat of climate change to water resources, Fonda writes, “Water is no longer infinite… The UN predicts that by 2050 that lack of access to clean water could affect five billion people, half the planet. We may feel safe here in America, but when the U.S. Government Accountability Office surveyed water managers in 2013, it found that forty out of fifty of them anticipated water shortages by 2023” (pg. 120).
What Can I Do? was published during the COVID-19 pandemic and Fonda writes, “Just about every single thing that this government of ours has done is exactly the opposite of what must happen – with a pandemic or with the climate crisis: denial, lack of preparedness, disregard for science, viewing the federal government as merely a ‘backup.’ This is not a drill! It is a vital teachable moment” (pgs. 209-210). Fonda concludes, “It has become clear to me that the fossil fuel industry is anathema to democracy. We cannot continue to depend on fossil fuels and live in a country that calls itself a democracy… Two-thirds of Americans want our government to pass a binding climate treaty. But in 2013, the fossil fuel industry spent $326 million to persuade congressional Republicans and some Democrats to kill just such a treaty” while fossil fuel industries further spend at the state and local levels to quash any attempts to limit their profiteering and extraction at the expense of health and climate concerns (pg. 260). Fonda’s book serves as both a warning of how dire things have become as well as a roadmap for actions everyday people can take and hopefully help our society survive, minimize, and begin to reverse the effects climate change. ( )