Hanoi Jane: Climate Change due to Racism! By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Older readers may remember actress Jane Fonda going over to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and spitting on the US. She has continued to champion what we now call woke, Leftoid causes. Her latest claim is the climate change is a product of white racism. How can that be? Because of the system that whites produce, of industrialisation, the system that produced the movie industry, although that is probably doing more justice to her garbled remarks that she deserves. She apparently does not count the greenhouse gases emitted by communist China, more than the developed world combined, as a problem, as she loves all things communist.
“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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