How to transform your climate concern into action | Jane Fonda

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Actor and activist Jane Fonda discusses her frontline work fighting for climate action, including recent efforts to support climate-minded candidates running for office in the US and to break the fossil fuel industry's stranglehold on the country's government. Hear why she decided to bring her climate activism into the electoral arena after decades of marching, protesting and civil disobedience -- and how anybody can join in and stand up for change. (This conversation, hosted by TEDWomen Editorial Director Pat Mitchell, was recorded on October 26, 2022.)

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0:00.0	Hey Emily, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:07.3	On today's show, Jane Fonda.
0:09.9	The actor and activist has been a fixture of our lives for decades, and she's not slowing
0:14.7	down.
0:15.7	In her 2022 conversation at Ted Women Presents, with the events curator Pat Mitchell.
0:20.9	Jane talks through all the ways she's continuing to build community to take action, not only
0:26.2	for the upcoming US midterms, but for a top global priority.
0:30.1	Climate.
0:31.1	Hey, I'm Stephen Johnson, host of the Ted interview podcast.
0:37.2	On this show, we talk to some of the world's most interesting people.
0:41.6	On the latest episode, journalist Linda Villarosa discusses her decades-long fascination with
0:47.0	how the color of your skin dictates the kind of healthcare you receive.
0:51.6	We were taught to, oh, you just have to take good care of yourself, and then you will
0:55.6	be healthy for life.
0:57.5	And certainly that is not true.
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1:08.4	Welcome Jane.
1:09.4	The last time you joined us, so good to see you as always.
1:15.0	The last time you joined us on Ted Women, Jane, I was thinking about that this morning you
1:19.3	were in the nation's capital, Washington DC, and you were leading the weekly protests,
1:24.7	Fire Drills Fridays, Fire Drill Fridays, in partnership with the Greenpeace International.
1:32.5	You got arrested, it made headlines, and certainly all of the civil disobedience actions
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