Jane Fonda has made headlines again, this time with an outrageous suggestion to tackle the climate crisis – arresting and jailing the male perpetrators.
At a career retrospective at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the Hollywood icon used her platform to publicize her radical environmental activist goals. Arguing that there are only seven or eight years left before the world must cut its fossil fuel consumption in half, the two–time Oscar winner blamed the patriarchy and racism for global warming.
Making an explicit call for jailing men, Fonda said: “It’s a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop. We have to arrest and jail those men — they’re all men.”
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Jane Fonda has become an increasingly vocal environmental activist over the past year, organizing weekly initiatives called Firedrill Fridays to encourage people to pressure lawmakers for change. But this latest call to jail certain genders is raising eyebrows and receiving backlash.
Many people consider the idea of arresting a specific gender an extreme and inappropriate solution to climate change that doesn’t really address the underlying issue.
“Having an emotive rant and falsely blaming global warming solely on men is both false, and counter–productive. Focus needs to be on meaningful governmental action,” tweeted David Smith, a communications consultant.
Fonda also failed to note that China, which is not a white male–dominated nation, is the biggest polluter of greenhouse gases, contributing to a larger portion of emissions than all developed countries combined. In her speech, she said “It’s important because we have to get out of the silos — feminists over here, environmentalists over here. That’s what I learned when I started being an activist around the Vietnam War. The more you go down any issue, whatever it is, you realize that it’s all connected.”
While environmental conservation is an essential cause for the preservation of future generations, Jane Fonda’s extreme rhetoric is not likely to be an effective solution. It’s this sort of reductive thinking that ultimately dilutes the real issues caused by global warming and could prevent Fonda’s goals from being met in a meaningful way.
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