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       ARTICLE VIEW: 
       
       Jane Fonda’s advice to people depressed about the future: Get
       involved
       
       By Lisa Respers France, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       8:37 PM EDT, Tue April 16, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       Jane Fonda knows what it feels like to worry about the future.
       
       In an , the Oscar-winning actor and activist, 86, reflected on her
       six-decade-long career and her efforts to address the climate crisis.
       
       That she said, helped lift her out of darkness.
       
       “Maybe five or six years ago, I was really despondent about the
       climate situation. I was doing stuff, but I knew I could do a lot more
       given that I have a platform,” Fonda said. “It was hard for me to
       even get out of bed, I was so depressed. Then I started and the minute
       I started my activism full-on, the depression lifted.”
       
       Being an activist helps keep her “hopeful,” she said, despite
       acknowledging we’re living in a “very dangerous time right now.”
       
       “I think that the most dangerous threat facing us is the climate
       crisis, because if we don’t confront it in time it’s going to be
       very hard to achieve democracy, equality, anything that we want in a
       stable society,” she said. “When I decided to devote myself to the
       climate crisis issue full-time, it was to try to alert people of
       what’s coming. We have about six years to reduce our fossil fuel
       emissions.”
       
       Fonda’s work as an activist began in earnest back in the 1970s, when
       her mentor, a Black attorney, offered her some words of wisdom.
       
       “I said to him, ‘I think I’m going to not be an actor anymore
       because it’s too hard for me when I’m working with people who are
       in a very different situation in the world,’” she recalled. “He
       said to me, ‘Fonda, the movement has a lot of organizers. We don’t
       have movie stars. We need movie stars. You should not only keep doing
       what you’re doing but you got to pay more attention, own it. Own your
       career, make it work for you as an activist.’”
       
       That’s just what she did, thriving as both an activist and as an
       actress in beloved films, including “9 to 5,” “Coming Home” and
       “The China Syndrome.”
       
       Now Fonda wants others to catch fire for doing good as well.
       
       “While I have the opportunity, with every ounce of my being, I want
       to say to the young people that will read this: please vote and vote
       with climate in your heart. People are worried about climate, but they
       don’t bring that into the voting booth with them,” she told the
       publication. “We have to confront this in order to have a livable
       future. It’s your future, I’ll be dead.”
       
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