Jane Fonda admits she was “slipping into despair” before launching her Fire Drill Fridays climate-change protests in Washington, D.C.
The 82-year-old, who just released her new book, What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action, has been arrested multiple times in a bid to raise awareness of the climate-change crisis.
She’s also hoping to pressure Congress into passing the Green New Deal; a climate change proposal to transition the U.S. away from fossil fuels and limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Fonda tells USA Today: “I was slipping into despair before I went to D.C. I spent a year depressed about climate change and feeling I wasn’t doing enough.
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