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Young people鈥檚 understandable unhappiness with the听鈥檚 record on oil and gas drilling and听听should not deter them from voting to block听听from again becoming president of the United States, the Hollywood actor and activist听听has warned.

鈥淚 understand why young people are really angry and really hurting,鈥� Fonda said. 鈥淲hat I want to say to them is: 鈥楧o not sit this election out, no matter how angry you are. Do not vote for a third party, no matter how angry you are. Because that will elect somebody who will deny you any voice in the future of the United States. 鈥� If you really care about Gaza, vote to have a voice, so you can do something about it. And then, be ready to turn out into the streets, in the millions, and fight for it.鈥欌��

Fonda鈥檚 remarks came in a wide-ranging interview organized by the global media collaborative听听and conducted by The Guardian, CBS News, and Rolling Stone magazine.

Making major social change requires massive, nonviolent street protests as well as shrewd electoral organizing, Fonda argued. Drawing on more than 50 years of听, from her anti鈥揤ietnam War and anti-nuclear protests in the 1970s to later agitating for economic democracy, women鈥檚 rights, and, today, for climate action, Fonda said that: 鈥淗istory shows us that 鈥� you need millions of people in the streets, but you [also] need people in the halls of power with ears and a heart to hear the protests, to hear the demands.鈥�

During the Great Depression, she said, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt agreed with helping the masses of unemployed. But FDR said the public had to 鈥渕ake him do it鈥� or he could not overcome resistance from the status quo. 鈥淭here is a chance for us to make them do it if it鈥檚听听and Tim Walz [in the White House],鈥� she said. 鈥淭here is no chance if Trump and Vance win this election.鈥�

Scientists have repeatedly warned that greenhouse gas emissions听, Fonda noted, so a President Harris would have to be pushed 鈥渢o stop drilling and fracking and mining. No new development of fossil fuels.鈥� Trump, on the other hand, has promised to 鈥溾�榙rill, baby, drill.鈥� For once, let鈥檚 believe him. The choice is very clear: Do we vote for the future, or do we vote for burning up the planet?鈥�

Fonda launched the听听three years ago to elect 鈥渃limate champions鈥� at all levels of government: national, state, and local. 鈥淭he PAC focuses down ballot鈥攐n mayors, state legislators, county councils,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 incredible how much effect people in these positions can have on climate issues.鈥�

Forty-two of the 60 candidates the PAC endorsed in 2022 won their races. In 2024, the PAC is providing money, voter outreach, and publicity to more than 100 candidates in key battleground states and in California, Fonda鈥檚 home state. California is 鈥渢he fifth-biggest economy in the world, and an oil-producing state,鈥� she explained, 鈥渟o what happens here has an impact far broader than California.鈥�

We need that industry out of our lives, off of our planet鈥攂ut they run the world.鈥�

Fonda is also, for the first time in her life, 鈥渧ery involved鈥� in this year鈥檚 presidential campaign, 鈥渂ecause of the climate emergency.鈥� She plans to visit each battleground state, she said: 鈥淎nd when I鈥檓 there, we give our schedule to the Harris campaign. Then they fold in Harris campaign [get-out-the-vote events], volunteer recruitment, things like that 鈥� and then I do them for our PAC candidates鈥� as well.

Her PAC has a strict rule: It endorses only candidates who do not accept money from the fossil fuel industry. The industry鈥檚 鈥渟tranglehold over our government鈥� explains a crucial disconnect, Fonda said.Polls show that听, yet their elected officials often don鈥檛 deliver it. In California, she said, 鈥淲e鈥檝e had so many moderate Democrats that blocked the climate solutions we need because they take money from the fossil fuel industry. 鈥� It鈥檚 very hard to stand up to the people that are supporting your candidacy.鈥�

Fonda also faulted the mainstream news media for not doing a better job of informing the public about the听听and the abundance of solutions. Watching the Harris鈥揟rump debate, she thought that 鈥淜amala did very well.鈥� But she 鈥渨as very disturbed that the No. 1 crisis facing humanity right now took an hour and a half to come up and was not really addressed,鈥� she added. 鈥淧eople don鈥檛 understand what we are facing! The news media has to be more vigilant about tying extreme weather events to climate change. It鈥檚 starting to happen, but not enough.鈥�

Given her years of anti-nuclear activism鈥攊ncluding producing and starring in a hit Hollywood movie, The China Syndrome, released days before the听听in 1979鈥攊t鈥檚 perhaps no surprise that Fonda rejects the increasingly fashionable idea that nuclear power is a climate solution.

鈥淓very time I speak [in public], someone asks me if these听听are a solution,鈥� she said. 鈥淪o I鈥檝e spent time researching it, and there鈥檚 one unavoidable problem: No nuclear reactor of any kind鈥攖he traditional or听, none of them鈥攈as been built in less than 10 to 20 years. We don鈥檛 have that kind of time. We have to deal with the climate crisis by the 2030s. So just on the timeline, nuclear is not a solution.鈥� By contrast, she said: 鈥溙齮akes about four years to develop, and pretty soon it鈥檚 going to be 30% of the electricity in the world.鈥�

The reason that solar鈥攁nd wind and geothermal鈥攅nergy are not prioritized over fossil fuels and nuclear, she argued, is that 鈥渂ig companies don鈥檛 make as much money on it.鈥� Noting that air pollution from听, she added: 鈥淲e鈥檙e being poisoned to death because of petrochemicals and the fossil fuel industry. And we [taxpayers] pay for it!听[in government subsidies] to the fossil fuel industry, and we鈥檙e dying. 鈥� We need that industry out of our lives, off of our planet鈥攂ut they run the world.鈥�

I鈥檓 hopeful, and I鈥檓 gonna work like hell to make it true.鈥�

The two-time Academy Award winner鈥檚 decades as one of the world鈥檚 biggest movie stars has given her an appreciation of the power of celebrity, and she applauds听听for exercising that power with her endorsement of the Harris鈥揥alz ticket.

鈥淚 think she鈥檚 awesome, amazing, and very smart,鈥� Fonda said of Swift. 鈥淚鈥檓 very grateful and excited that she did it, and 鈥� I think it鈥檚 going to have a big impact.鈥�

鈥淢y metaphor for myself, and other celebrities, is a repeater,鈥� Fonda added. 鈥淲hen you look at a big, tall mountain, and you see these antennas on the top, those are repeaters. They pick up the signals from the valley that are weak and distribute them so that they have a larger audience. 鈥� When I鈥檓 doing the work I鈥檓 doing, I鈥檓 picking up the signals from the people who live in Wilmington and the Central Valley and Kern County and are really suffering, and the animals that can鈥檛 speak, and trying to lift them up and send [their stories] out to a broader audience. We鈥檙e repeaters. It鈥檚 a very valid thing to do.鈥�

Climate activism is also 鈥渟o much fun,鈥� she said, and it does wonders for her mental health.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 get depressed anymore,鈥� she said. 鈥淵ou know, Greta Thunberg said something really great: 鈥楨verybody goes looking for hope. Hope is where there鈥檚 action, so look for action and hope will come.鈥欌�� Hope, Fonda added, is 鈥渧ery different than optimism. Optimism is 鈥楨verything鈥檚 gonna be fine,鈥� but you don鈥檛 do anything to make sure that that鈥檚 true. Hope is 鈥業鈥檓 hopeful, and I鈥檓 gonna work like hell to make it true.鈥欌��

This article by is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.