“Wisdom doesn’t always come with age,” the saying goes — “sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” Critics could thus lament with news that actress Jane Fonda, 85, has again confirmed her status as a notorious left-wing activist. Unlike with her anti-Vietnam-war activities, however, which untold numbers of veterans say amounted to treason, Fonda appears to have little to say about today’s fashionable wars (e.g., Ukraine involvement). Instead, she’s warring against Western prosperity, white people, and what she calls the “patriarchy.”
In fact, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the actress blamed white men and racism for climate change.
What’s more, she said that the white men responsible for it should be arrested and jailed.
“‘This is serious,’ she said Saturday,” Fox News relates. “‘We’ve got about seven, eight years to cut ourselves in half of what we use of fossil fuels, and unfortunately, the people that have the least responsibility for it are hit the hardest — Global South, people on islands, poor people of color. It is a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop. We have to arrest and jail those men — they’re all men [behind this].’”
Of course, we’ve had only ____ years to save the planet for about 40 years. Back “in the late 1980s, the UN claimed that if global warming were not checked by 2000, rising sea levels would wash entire countries away,” the Institute for Energy Research (IER) reminded us in 2018. Professor James Hansen, a noted warming alarmist, stated in 2006, “We have at most ten years — not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.”
In other words, hasn’t Fonda heard that’s it’s already too late? Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we fry.
But we’re not done. “In 2009, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted that the world had only 50 days to save the planet from global warming,” IER also informs. The site further relates that while head of a United Nations climate panel, Rajendra Pachauri “pleaded that without drastic action before 2012, it would be too late to save the planet. In the same year, Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, predicted ‘global disaster’ from the demise of Arctic sea ice in four years.”
These men, IER adds, have now cooled their tongues and “gone quiet.”
But not Fonda, because, of course, she just must know something they don’t, right? Well, she is correct about one thing:
It is all men (just about) and their endeavors and brainchildren — who’ve given us the unprecedented lifestyle we enjoy.
In fact, it’s a man who gave Fonda her career, fame, and money; that would be her father, legendary actor Henry Fonda. Is it a coincidence that both Jane and her brother, the late Peter Fonda, found a prominent place in Hollywood? As comedian, actor, and commentator Bill Maher pointed out recently on the entertainer-line-of-succession matter, it’s show business — “getting your foot in the door is 80 percent of it!”
Returning to her act at Cannes, Fonda wasn’t done. “It’s good for us all to realize, there would be no climate crisis if there was no racism,” she further claimed. “There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy, a mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way. White men are the things that matter and then everything else at the bottom.”
This is interesting because if CO2 (a naturally occurring, life-sustaining gas) emissions are the concern, know that China emits more than twice as much as the U.S. does. And if Beijing is run by white men, it’s news to President Xi Jinping.
But Fonda didn’t say anything about China, perhaps because she also touts “intersectionality,” the notion that all nonwhites’ and women’s interests intersect and that they should unite against their common oppressor: white men.
As she put it at Cannes, “It’s important because we have to get out of the silos — feminists over here, environmentalists over here.” This just echoed what Fonda expressed earlier this year on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “Yeah, well, you can take anything,” she stated, “sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, the war. And if you really get into it and study it and learn about it and the history of it and everything’s connected.”
When later asked to explain how “racism” causes climate change, Fonda responded, “Where would they put the poison and the pollution? They’re not gonna put it in Bel Air” (just as anti-border-enforcement Hollywood figures won’t put illegals in Bel Air?).
“They’ve gotta find some place where poor people or indigenous people or people of color are living,” she elaborated (video below; relevant portion begins at 4:40).
Now, the logical assumption is that if the concern is a gas such as CO2, it disperses into the atmosphere, and insofar as its levels rise, they do so everywhere. So is this a matter of sentient, artificially intelligent, white-supremacist CO2 that rubs its metaphorical hands together and laughs demonically as it travels to nonwhite locales? Fonda didn’t say.
That she also mentions “poor people,” however, tells the tale. When making the climate-racism claim, her fellow travelers will often cite black/Hispanic inner-city neighborhoods’ greater incidence of health problems. Yet that whites in Appalachia endure health outcomes as bad as or worse than those of nonwhite urbanites indicates that racism may not be the issue here.
It is, rather, that poor people always, in the aggregate, have worse health than do wealthier individuals. Money’s benefit is something Fonda knows well, too — though this doesn’t stop her from working to exacerbate poverty by pushing wealth-destroying greentopianism.
This is par for the course, however, for the spoiled woman some call “Hanoi Jane.” As the top commenter under a video about her call to jail white men put it, “Imagine you can be so entitled [that] you can commit treason and not go to jail for it and yet … demand the innocent go to jail for no reason.”
