Jane Fonda will bring Naomi Klein's message to Jericho Beach

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      In a recent commentary on Time magazine's website, Jane Fonda mentioned how she and actors Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas highlighted how their  1979 film, The China Syndrome, focused on "how corporate greed can trump safety with potentially tragic results".

      In that case, they were dramatizing a nuclear meltdown.

      Today, Fonda will be at Jericho Beach to shine a light on the actions of Shell, which is eager to drill for oil in the Arctic.

      Fonda, 77, says she's returned to activism after reading Naomi Klein's impressive 2014 book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate.

      The book outlines how certain billionaires are keen to invest in geo-engineering. And by seeding the atmosphere with chemicals to reflect sun away from the earth, they risk disrupting rainfall patters in the southern hemisphere. Klein makes a strong case that this could wreak havoc on the annual monsoon that irrigates food for more than a billion South Asians.

      This Changes Everything also explains why it's necessary, from a scientific point of view, to keep fossil fuels in the ground to stop carbon emissions from continuing to climb. This, in turn, led Klein to include a lengthy section on the growing movement to divest from oil and coal companies.

      The book has had a profound impact on the environmental movement.

      With Fonda adding her voice to the debate, Klein's influence can only increase. 

      Klein and others have pointed out that there are already many times as many proven reserves of oil and coal as can be burned without  average global temperature increases reaching a tipping point.

      Energy companies' balance sheets are simply out of sync with the climate. We can't simply make use of all of those proven reserves of many fossil fuels and survive as a species.

      It's time Wall Street started paying attention to this. The arithmetic is irrefutable.

       

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      Maybe...

      Jun 13, 2015 at 8:08pm

      Or maybe climate change is just another Big Science/Big Government/Big University "crisis" that requires expert management.

      All in all, we have issues in Vancouver like drug prohibition that are far more important than the climate. Who wants to live in a climate-controlled prison, anyway?

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