
What Can I Do?
My Path from Climate Despair to Action
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A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest
"This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. It's too late for moderation."
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, and has since led thousands of people in nonviolent civil disobedience, risking arrest to protest for action. In What Can I Do?, Fonda weaves her deeply personal journey as an activist alongside conversations with and speeches by leading climate scientists and inspiring community organizers, and dives deep into the issues, such as water, migration, and human rights, to emphasize what is at stake. Most significantly, Fonda equips us all with the tools we need to join her in protest, so that everyone can work to combat the climate crisis.
No stranger to protest, Fonda's life has been famously shaped by activism. And now she is once again galvanizing the public to take to the streets. Many are already aware of the looming disaster of climate change and realize that a moral responsibility rests on our shoulders. In 2019, we saw atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases hit the highest level ever recorded in human history, and our window of opportunity to act is quickly closing. We are facing a climate crisis, but we're also facing an empathy crisis and an inequality crisis; the surge of protests over police violence against black Americans has once again highlighted the links between racism and environmental degradation in our country. 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.
As Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA and Fonda's partner in developing Fire Drill Fridays, has declared, "Change is inevitable; by design, or by disaster." Together, we can commandeer change for the positive - but it will require collective actions taken by social movements on an unprecedented scale. The problems we face now require every one of us to join the fight - the fight for not only our immediate future, but for the future of generations to come.
This audiobook program includes a PDF of photographs and graphs.
100 percent of the author's net proceeds from What Can I Do? have gone to Greenpeace.
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"'What Can I Do?' isn’t a rhetorical question...The Oscar Award-winning actress and committed activist sounds the alarm on looming climate disaster, providing readers with actions they can take to create positive change in a world on the brink." (USA Today)
"An informative guide to getting involved in the fight against climate change." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Chaston
- 07-13-22
This is how we make a change
Enjoyed the action it shows we can take! Let’s heal our planet together. Fossil fuels are the real problem.
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- molly
- 10-15-21
I am impatient to hear Jane’s perspective on this urgent question.
Unfortunately thought I bought this title, the ap won’t allow it to play but instead keeps repeating the introduction. Troubleshooting suggestion say to delete and reinstall but there is no delete option. I want to hear this and I’m frustrated
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- Charlie & Laura
- 01-28-25
Jane Fonda's focus, commitment and her ability to inspire others with her actions and voice 👏
Love this book❣️ Jane excels in writing as much as she does in everything she tickles. A visionary for the future who puts her actions where her words and beliefs are.
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- Jonnie Lipps
- 10-14-20
Excellent tools to help address the climate emergency
Jane Fonda gives an impassioned reading of her book, “What Can I Do?” As a climate activist practicing civil disobedience, she provides a guide for all of us to get involved to fight the existential threat of climate change. As an octogenarian, she saw the way the world was when there were only 2 billion people on the planet and how we have systematically degraded our environment. Excellent book and a wake up call for all of to get involved to save our planet.
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- Lorraine Twombly
- 10-06-20
Thank you Jane!
Thanks to everyone involved for educating us on climate change. Your recommendations to solutions help us to find our way through this crisis!! Lorraine 🙏🤩👍✌
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- Holly Engrav
- 06-30-24
Educational Exberence
I could listen to Jane Fonda talk about anything, but her passion for environmental activism is inspiring! I learned about issues like fracking g and how it affects indigenous people, and who environmental problems most affect.
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- Tracy Hodge
- 09-20-20
What can I do is a personal invite into activism
Thank you 🙏🏼 . I can help but want to be a better human being listening to Jane. I have only been an activist for only a few years, from Standing Rock in ‘15 to today writing postcards to voters for Mark Kelly. I await the ability to safely meet Fire drill Friday’s for the only planet we have. There is no planet B. ❤️☀️
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- Hannah Roberts
- 11-14-20
Truly Inspiring
This book is perfect for anyone interested in climate change and those interested in becoming activists.
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- Sasha
- 03-06-24
THANK YOU!
Loved this book and learning how I can get involved! I appreciate her including others and their expertise as well!!
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- Rachael D.
- 10-14-20
Thank you, Jane
This book is a call to action that we can all answer. Inspiring and thrilling.
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