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Alice Marchini

Arny governatore del pianeta terra forevah ❤️

Shane Colunga

I'm with this guy, more of a fan of his politics than his movies, but a great guy all the same

Shane Colunga

Sorry I'll stick to animal protein responsible for the increase in brain size and capacity, plus it's delicious BTW

Shane Colunga

Correction the first Ford automobile, the first automobile was made by Benz ,1883-6 and it was wood and sheet metal, three wheels, a steering bar (not wheel) and it was a steam driven one cylinder, Ford just did it completely green, the Auto industry should never have had strayed, but, however it did

Lisa Gonzalez

Yes, close enough and you get the idea though lol
"According to Popular Mechanics, Henry Ford’s first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, ‘grown from the soil,’ had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel."

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/02/25/henry-ford-hemp-plastic-car-stronger/

Thomas Nellessen

I appreciate clean energy, like anyone should. Burning oil, gas or coal kills people with air polution or at least reduce the lifespan of everyone of us. But actually we do not have enough wind or sunpower...

Thomas Nellessen

Well wanted to write more but pressed the wrong buttom. What I want to point out: The alternative energys like wind and sunpower are cost extensive and do not make sense at every place. Please take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor - this is the solution, or better said could be the solution if some of the billioneer on this planet would spend some of their money on R&D in this area. Yes, it's nuclear - but this is a good solution, a reactor type that is not able to explode in an uncontrolled mode, because it will switch off in any case of unnormal state. And to be honest... even if this sounds hard, but we are accepting that air pollution from burning oil and coal kills around 7 Million people around the planet every year, but screaming in anxiety if we hear the word nuclear... All atomic accidents and also atomic bombs have killed fewer people since the beginning of atomic use than air pollution kills in a week. And I'm no atom lobbyist for sure. It's possible to build safe atomic plants with another technology, where the "fuel" is Thorium a low radiation element, which is let's say the waste while digging for rare earth like lithium and cobalt. And the best: this reactor type - the Molten Salt Reactor also could burn the waste of the traditional reactors... People like Zuckerberg, Musk and Gates are spending Billions a year for good things.. I'm sure. But they would change the world if they would agree to bring this technology on the start and whats more - would give all the patens and rights to the communitiy to allow the world to solve most of the problems of our time without allows few to put all the money into their pockets again.

Michel Alix

I wish he'd terminate his political career and go back to being a Hollywood cardboard hero. Mr. Pumping Bratwurst.

Linda Rees

Alex, you can flog a dead horse all you like but it isn't going to rise up again. The truth is you are too late. Renewable technology is growing fast, individuals and businesses purchasing green tech is growing fast. Renewable energy is cheaper, cleaner and with emerging battery technology supply issues will very soon be a thing of the past. I love my kids and they need clean air to survive - so do all other living creatures and plants that exist on this planet... to forsake our only one home is just pure evil - we should be stewards of our planet, not destroyers. That dead horse is fossil fuels..... sorry but making money off polluting fuel sources no matter how you try to spin it is just fundamentally and morally wrong.

Adam Thomas

Carlos Benjamin electrical engines are used all over the place. In fact there was a period in american motor productions were companies like ford were producing electric motors because they were quieter and did not scare horses. To find electric motors look at fork lifts, Zamboni and a ton of other commercial style machinery. The point being, were cost needs to be controlled electric is a better option.

Electric motors exsist, the grid to charge them does not. That is the only thing. Do not fool yourself it is simply a guy with billions in his pocket holding back progress.

Jean-Serge Brisson

The renewable energy sector is advancing because of ONE major reason, government money.

When we converted from horses to cars, there was one incentive to do it. New York couldn't handle 6 million horses in the streets, because there would banks of green and brown piles on the streets.

Renewable energy has to go the same way. When it is feasible for the people, they will adopt it easily.

Fred Pottger

Stop smoking cigars and do your part you weasel.

Ana Degre

True..anybody can live without gold..money or even job..but nobody can live without breathing for more than 2 min

Robin Parkinson

Hasta la vista, baby!

Regina Paz Lopez

Totally agree. Coal is not cheap. n th Philippines the poor subsidize the cost of cheap energy. With their health, impact on agriculture i and fishery. I have seen four studieson coal plants.

Vicki Lee Rexrode McCampbell

In a state-by-state analysis, the researchers found that California suffers the worst health impacts from air pollution, with about 21,000 early deaths annually, mostly attributed to road transportation and to commercial and residential emissions from heating and cooking.

This data was collected in 2005, while you, Arnold, were governor of CA. What were you doing about it then? And have you actually READ the entire Paris Agreement? I think you're just mad at Trump. He's doing exactly what he said he would do.

http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf

David Bennett

Climate change has been happening since earth became a planet. First it was global warming and you couldn't prove it and got caught lying about it. So you change it to climate change and say humans are the cause. Why on earth she we buy any of your garbage. I am all for making the air cleaner but at what cost. Then they give China and India a pass for 13 years and we should supplement the poor countries. I say let Europe take care of it. The y need us more than we need them. We saved there ass the last 2 world wars I say its time they take care of them selves. By the way many of us do not want to be like Europe. If 7 million people are dying from pollution break it down by country. You won't do that because most of them are dying in China and India and countries near them.

Linda Wilson

Sometimes we do need the law first, then people will do the right thing that they don't always choose when given the choice. Like wearing seat belts. Like integrating public schools. Like driving safely. Like changing ways to achieve a clean planet.

Chad Underdonk

Linda Wilson legal requirements are minimal solutions. They do not accomplish the goal. If all the folks on here that are so damn set on using force against others to make them take action would simply take sincere and personal action they would achieve far more. Sadly much of the demand is the demand that others do so that many of you folks do not need to do.

Linda Wilson

Logic and reason did not free the enslaved. Nor allow them to attend the same schools. Logic and reason sometimes come later, after the law has changed behaviors.

Chad Underdonk

Logic would dictate that if the situation were as dire as most folks on here claim it is, then those same folks are total hypocrites if they haven't changed their lives completely to create not just no impact on the environment, but in fact a positive one. If the situation is so dire you should be planting dozens of trees a day to try and resolve the issue. Any less and I have to question the dedication and beliefs of those who demand of others but do too little themselves.

MK Simmons

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Patricia Lynne Gardner

Well said.

Jeff Buehner

False choice (liberals love presenting these). It takes fossil fuels to create the electricity to run the electric car. You think electricity just magically comes out of the plug? And how many birds are killed every day by that solar panel field you're standing in, Arnold? One last pair of questions: if "clean" energy (It's not! Solar panel manufacturing creates incredible pollution and waste) is so great why only 40% of California's energy? Why not all? And why does it have to be subsidized?

Mimi Fultz

I agree. this planet will not die without us. But, we will die without this planet.

Rebecca Helianthus

Where do you get the figures about death per day due to pollution?

Faustino Delarosa

We love you Arnold and the message you're carrying out. We need more people like you to continue working to make a difference. I support you 100%. Thank you

Christy J Montefusco-Ventricelli

GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL GOD IS VERY INTELLIGENT BEING MAN CAN NOT FIX CLIMATE CHANGE THERE HAVE MANY SCIENTISTS THAT STATED THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE OR GLOBAL WARMING IT'S BULL SHIT BY THE BUG GOVERNMENT. SO STOP WITH THE NONSENSE

Doug Adams

President Trump needs to put Governor Schwarzenegger the head of all this environmental stuff just like president Bush but Arnold Schwarzenegger in charge of physical fitness

Pieter Present

You're absolutely right about that one Arnold I agree with you!

Alex Ghazvin

Arnold really is a man I can get behind. The two car thought experiment is ingenious, did he really come up with it himself?

Clint Brewer

I like this. You put this is in layman's terms. You didn't polarize it. You are trying to build a consensus. And you focused on the practical consequences of getting stuck in the past. Thank you, Mr. Schwarzenegger!

Joel Giladi

China is doing it's best to reduce pollution and has taken huge steps in cutting down on all fossil fuel emissions. It is already building one of the biggest solar factories on Earth: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/19/china-builds-worlds-biggest-solar-farm-in-journey-to-become-green-superpower

And there are a few Chinese companies and investment tycoons that are heavily investing in affordable electric cars with the hopes to replace all the ones running on fossil fuels. I mean, just see the stats.
Tesla sold over a billion dollars worth of electric cars there last year, and this year it is expected to double that number.

Jim McNally

I have always agreed that Pollution is the number one problem that the world faces. Like wise I believe that it will take everyone doing their part to clean up the environment for anything to get done about it.

Mary Shaheen

This is Chrissie ...please read this everyone and share

Adam Berendt

I agree we need to take steps to move towards cleaner energy, but many studies have shown that electricity produced by coal to power electric cars and the acid batteries they run on have more environmental impact than a normal car. Also most cars could be retrofitted to run on natural gas and would drop all emissions by half for 1500 a car. why not just give every american 1500 dollars to retrofit their car to nat gas which is less per gallon and cleaner. Immediate return on investment and immediate reduction in pollution. then move onto the next step. also America is the Saudi Arabia of nat gas. We can also stop funding terrorists who are trying to kill us.

Shawn Marston

Well, since I wish my mother had aborted me, I choose the door to asphyxiation. Thank you for making my choice so simple.

Martin Dance

Bjorn, Presumably you chose door number 1 then?.id bet that car emissions alone kill millions that we don't even know about!

Kanu Kaneshka Fahim Aref

ALL ENDS IN BLACK!

Jyoti Prakash Mitra

With regard to 'Gross Recession', #ClimateChange has direct link with Production 'mine' (anywhere) & 'passage' of sea surface trade. Cumulative effect of these are depreciation of exchange money, fluctuating revenue, imbalances in war profiles, defence budget generation, technology upgradation, public nutrition, water scarcity etc All the stone (less penetration of climate turbulence as pollution was less) & 'metal' ages saw less effective climate change when 'production fluctuations' led to enormous wars & migration. #CIA

Colleen Burgess

keep up the fight Arnold we are listening

Will Loveday

@[1389810159:2048:Jack Kozanecki]

Paul Soms

Alex, you're a special kind of stupid! Congratulations!

Susan VM

Lynda Kutrich wow. You are really underestimating that "infinitely small amount of warming" and the disastrous effects it has on our planet. By all means, keep your head in the sand.
And I'm not even going to touch the "clean" coal comment.

Dan Moser

The biggest obstacle to the clean energy future we should ALL want is widespread misinformation .. spewed by the likes of the Koch brothers, giant oil & coal companies.. funneled through their minions such as the Heartland Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Steve Crowder, Breitbart News, and countless other biased blogs & shameless shills, influencing a myriad of money-grubbing politicians.. We believe in free speech, but merely debunking these societal tumors is apparently not very effective. Education, science, and steady public pressure will eventually prevail, but not nearly as quickly as we would want.

Brandon Penny

Thank you Arnold. Please run for president next election.

Timothy Holley

I think someone should stick to making cheesy action movies instead of acting the part of scientist.

Josh Youngren

There are plenty of scientists and studies that show. So called facts on either side of this arguement. Most likely neither side is right. Most likely it is somewhere in he middle. I do find it interesting that people keep screaming about the warming of the earth but then the studies actually show the average temp of the earth hasn't changed since the 50s. Maybe even the climate change but cases pushing the whole issue are actually profiting off people blindly following them. Haven't seen anyone on either side of the arguement in higher positions getting poor. But see lots. On both sides getting paid

Megan Pulley

You are a treasure

Tony King

Kevin Olsen by destroying us
Remove the problem

Sandra Cesco-cancian

On point!

Anthony Wendell

@[1375560043:2048:Mel Lynn]

Anthony Wendell

"A choice not a mandate"

While we're at it, let's get rid of speed limits. Nobody should tell you what to do right?

Simon Crowe

Nice to hear a sensible option out of the US for once

Hopper Victor Michael

Arnold is my hero

Chad Underdonk

Considering speed limits are primarily about revenue generation for the State for an otherwise victimless crime I absolutely think we should get rid of them!

Rik Thomassen

The questions need to be semi productive.

Andrew Labit

@[1785387509:2048:Rayn Braun]

Scott Crabtree

I think they should make windfarms look more like the old windmills to make them look better and make more water wheels & micro hydro plants where they can.

Patrick Matthew Parisi

Yeah, right, like I'm going to take scientific advice from a foreign Hollywood actor who knows nothing about science! FAIL!

Roberto Nazario

Ronald Chmara "Efficient electrical systems don't produce a lot of waste heat."

Global warming isn't happening because of waste heat. Like, at all. You're so far off the mark it seems you've never bothered to inform yourself on the issue whatsoever...

William Ye

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Erlyn Pangilinan

Yes :)

Tim Ravenscroft

Where's the evidence for this? Alex Jones? "caught flat out lying, manipulating documents to claim 97% of the peer reviewed papers authors agreed that it is human caused"

Rob Goris

We know all about you in Australia... brought over by our climate denier politicians. Well it didn't end well for you when reputable universities wanted no part of your mumbo jumbo mutterings. You see enemies of science and puppets of large fossil fuel interests have no room in the climate fight. And every where you go to peddle you nonsense, you will be seen for what you are - a climate shonk. So long and don't come back.

Evan Gaythorpe

we have had enough dialogue, the only debate now is between the lies and the facts (hint; science always supports the evidence)

Jenny-Lee Livingston

All of these things you don't want with green energy are happening now with fossil fuels. So what's the difference? At least with green energy, you're not killing the planet and our future generations.

Thilani Babuji

@[100000101563403:2048:Kugs Kuganeswaran]

Chad Underdonk

Yes, there are bad things already happening with fossil fuels. But they are largely by consumer choice, not government mandate. Unfortunately there is plenty of cronyism in fossil fuels...but that is true of anything that can manipulate its way into government dollars. The case can easily be made that Elon Musk doesn't sell electric cars, he sells tax incentives. Because the moment those tax incentives are removed he sells less than a tenth of what he was selling before.

Chase Bane

Not to downplay the whole thing, because renewable energy is great and it is the future, but the opening line. "...why we should...question science.." In science shouldn't we always question the findings? Continue to probe and inquire, verify and refine? Ijs.

Janice Hawkins

You tell 'em like it is! Thank you.

Vincent Roberts

I'll eat the animal... my contribution to your dumb vegan horseshit!

Gail Theobald

Yes to all you say here Arnie. We must stick together and share sensible, caring and productive ideology. Our UK is now under threat from cynical, greedy and incomprehensible ideas due to the vote to leave the EU and a right wing government that doesn't care. Well, many people do care and we won't give up. Thank you for spreading the word.

Cindy White

Arnold makes really valid points and this article is well worth reading

Steve Locher

I say we put the numbnut in the white house in door #1

Lynn Carol

Here's a plan for you:

Lynn Carol

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CCL has already helped to create the fast-growing Climate Solutions Caucus in Congress that's 50% GOP members and was the inspiration for the conservative Climate Leadership Council's "carbon dividends" plan.
You can also support CCL by simply contacting your congressional representatives and/or writing your local paper about carbon fee-and-dividend. Just that can make a real difference.

Check out citizensclimatelobby.org and if you support what you see there, please support The Citizens Climate Lobby. We call CCL The Little Engine That Could. We’re the Most Powerful Climate Action Group You’ve Never Heard Of. We’re small but mighty. Our membership is doubling annually, now in the tens of thousands, Join us!

Joseph Dowd

Yeah, genius. All those people dying from the burning of solar panels and wind turbines. Amazing that would expend the effort to insert negative minutia into an argument for an idealistic compromise between smart folks and the denial dinosaurs. Get a grip.

Charlotte Smolnik

Charlotte Smolnik

124 in phx u think !!

Laurent Jacques Caestecker

Arnold for green energy, ok I follow him, he's right, for the planet, for the futur and for the futur of all humans ... ;-)

Hawk Allerby

Myles Adams you probably wouldn't be alive to call me a moron without Fossil fuels sustaining your and your predecessors lives...
The people first to drop away under the scam of "environmentalism" are those poor people struggling to survive in natures hostile environment without fossil fuels.
Just as when DDT was banned leading to the resurgence of malaria, your misguided ideas would lead to catastrophic death.
Maybe instead of calling names you should check the facts and drop your 'immoral moralist' nonsense, look up at the sun ☀️ and discover what really affects the climate.
Then thank the few geniuses that made life bearable that you seem intent on reversing.
Head out into the jungle and live by your "ideals" without the 'nasty pollutants' and find what really makes life unliveable for the human being, including the moronic ones.

Lou Almon

Ascher Nathan How about you actually refute @[1316303:2048:Alex Epstein]'s arguments, or his method of thinking? Good luck....

Hawk Allerby

@[100002569986715:2048:Lou Almon] argument isn't a strong point with these "true believers " 🤣

Lou Almon

@[1823576351:2048:Hawk Allerby] Eric Hoffer's "magnum opus" applies to so many many different mentalities! I think he said Communism is as much an opiate of the masses as is religion...I say, so many opiates nowadays!

Rachel Walsh

Artur Wilkomir I think you could be right there, smart man! :D ♥

Rachel Walsh

unfortunatly God has given us free will, so we can and may end up killing this world if we don't take up clean energy.

Lori Kirchhofer Skehar

Ask Arnold how he fuels his private jet that flys him around the world. I bet it not electric😡. We do have to make good decisions about saving the environment, but unless you live in a cave, none of us could live without oil and gas

Marat Oyvetsky

@[9269711759:274:Arnold], for all of the things you have stated above, for all of the examples that you have cited and for all of the passion that you expressed.... it is exactly for those reasons why I become so frustrating when current administration supporters and the current administration are working so hard on trying to destroy everything that was put in place to safeguard and help us get to a clean energy future. It blows my mind that many people still think what is going on in our environment; (the signs of mass animal extinctions, the breaking and cleaving of gargantuan chunks of ice from Antarctica, the increase in obscure hot and cold weather patterns) they look at everything going on and refuse to admit that there is anything wrong. We are striving to live healthier, live longer and better lives and everything that is being done to promote coal and fossil fuels by Trump's administration is completely mad and counterproductive to achieve those goals. Battling for green energy was SO difficult in the past. We now reached a point where the world is concerned and the world is listening. We need this to change. We need the current administration to listen to all of us. California is indeed the leader for green/clean energy. It gives me such immense pride and such incredible hope that our states and others have told the current administration to **** off as we continue to push towards a green energy future along with other states as well. To work with other countries on our promise to make the environment better for our children, our grandchildren and their grandchildren. It gives me hope. It gives me something to continue to fight for. It gives me desire to push and to continue to help make a difference.

Thank you! --@[674377587:2048:Marat]

Evelyn Landeau

Would love clean energy. But currently prices are to high for average American Family. Electric cars are more expensive, and batteries when they die, are expensive to purchase. Solar Energy for the home is also beyond financial reach of Average American Citizen. I am a wife of retired Military, not in our budget.

Emily Rose

I LOVE YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR OPENING SO MANY EYES!!!!!

Jelfi Chen

I agreed 100 percent with you sir!!! I DO NOT NEED SCIENCE to believe climate change is real ... there was time when I need blanket in the night and I do not need it no more now.. tell you way.. land conversion into palm oil in plantation.. the forest are gone the rivers become smaller day by day.....there was time when I literary could not see the sun for 5 months because of forest fire ... salam from Indonesia

Nicole Burt

Well argued Arnold!

Rosson Newton Jane Eluzabeth

I already have hybrid 4x4 and solar panels striving to be greener for my grandchildren and future gentertains

Ladywolf O'Shea

Thank you for your fantastic way of making us, the people, see Fossil fuel use correctly. This is enlightening. I have a little fuel burner car and hardly use it and I still feel guilty. I have solar and wind power for my home. Is there a solar automobile out there somewhere?

Graham Robbie

If there was no pollution no famine no conflict. And everybody lived to 90yrs old the planet could not sustain the increase in population we would be looking at the end of days. Think about it!

Gloria Chaisson

I have to agree, this is the best post ever.

Gábor Szebellédi

I totally agree with Arnold, I support it

Sudeb Banerjee

We are living very dangerously sir. We are dying everyday. I have no hope. I have lost all my will. I am completely defeated and lost. I am somehow alive. It's a hopeless world. I am very helpless and forlorn. I have nothing within me anymore.

Tiago Mendes da Silva

Peter Austin who would die in an hour of heating? unless the room is the size of the car the heat would not be enough to kill someone

Sylvia Irvine

Sharing this again just in case some of us are not yet convinced

Ghislaine Coulon

Alexander Nijman , Hubert Reeves said, "Man is the most insane species, he worships an invisible God and slaughters a visible nature...without realising that this nature he slaughters is this invisible God he worships !!!" Oh so true !!!

Elliot Boettcher

Hey found it again 🤘🏻

Eric Kassan

First off, where do you think the electricity to power the electric car came from? A power-plant likely burning fossil fuels. And since converting fuel to electricity to mechanical energy is far less efficient than going directly from fuel to mechanical energy, electric cars generate MORE "POLLUTION" than gas or diesel cars- just not at the tail-pipe!

Second, if it's truly such a great idea and investment, why won't those with money invest in green energy without guarantees, subsidies, tax-breaks, and grants funded by hard-working tax-payers who don't have a choice in the matter?

Wr Kincer

I live in a fossil fuel state. People here hate me when I bring this up. Wish I could have what you are selling :)

Robert Larrabee

Tell that to the people in China that can't go outside most days, and if they do they have to wear a mask, tell that to the people in over 3000 towns and cities in the States where companies have pulled out and left all there pollution behind and they can't drink the water, and kids have cancer. You stand up for the those deaths you stand up for kids with breathing disorders, you stand up and support clean up of all those towns. Maybe then I will believe your opinion but what you stand up for is more polution;

Roy Oetting

the seven people die every year statistic, I wonder if that came from the same guy who came up with the 97% consensus? I wonder how many of those people were cooking over open wood burning fires inside their house like they do in Africa? I just read a prediction that 2 billion people will die of famine in the next two decades. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is plant food. On submarines we used to run 4 times higher than it is now. Plants would like 1200 ppm. The IPCC assumed that the temperature rise was due to a rise in green house gases. That is wrong and the "pause" proves It. The Russians think we are going into another Maunder Solar Minimum and that it will last 300 years. If it lasts that long the oceans will pull CO2 out of the atmosphere which in turn will decrease food production even more. Perhaps with our machines we can pull CO2 down to 150 ppm (with the help of the oceans) and then all land plants will starve and die. Global warming has stopped. The sea level rise has stopped. Concentrate on what people are saying and not what you are hearing because you and Dr. Tyson, both influential people, got your heads up your ass. As far as energy goes you should be thinking fusion. When the skies are perpetually clouded over and the winds are so severe that conventional wind power doesn't work you'll wish we had fusion and be glad that we still can burn fossil fuels. Famine!

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David Wicks

OF PRODUCTS THAT CAN BE MADE FROM IT . JUST ONE OF THE MANY THOUGHTS THAT GO THROUGH MY MIND .WELL I'LL STOP AND WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR . HOPE YOU READ THIS . THANK YOU STR.

Cason Minor

Still a great article, keep up the fight. #noliftsnogifts Or maybe we dont take care of our planet, it won't take care of us!

Ken Tarpley

You are a jackass nothing more. You won't nothing more to get rich and redistribute wealth. You are a communist traitor. Shame on you.

Ken Tarpley

The only science deniers are the liars that promote global warming,

John Wurts

There is no global warming. Nothing is melting. The oceans are exactly where they were since the beginning of recorded history. It is hard to believe people fall for the Global warming hoax.

Ken Tarpley

It has nothing to do with pollution. Our country has solved almost all of out pollution problems. I lived when things were bad. I know what our waterways looked like in the 70s and what they look like now. Except California of course that is the most polluted state. ie Salton Sea. It is nothing but a big redistribution scheme. People like Gore and you running around in jets with you huge carbon footprints telling everyone else to comply with stagnant economy while you have you huge homes and jets. Hypocrites all.

Cason Minor

We have one of the lowest ratings for pollution and waste out of any country. He uses his platform for good. Cali realized they had a problem and now are leading the country in clean energy production. You aren't necessarily wrong in some of what you say..... You just have a very negative narrative.

Mike Hamborg

Please tell me, how are we going to get to work among other things without it you fool?!? Please tell me. I'll bet you have no idea because you don't know the slightest about supply chain and infrastructure. God you're a complete fool. Stick to acting and cheating on your wife.

Cason Minor

there are entire country's running on over 50% clean energy, few at 100. We are the most powerful nation on the planet. Clean energy has changed the Chinese economy for the better in their major cities. It would appear you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about while at the same time calling someone a fool. Very interesting. I like how you resort to the cheating wife thing too, gotta boost that argument with an unrelated insult. Further proves your point is weak.

Mike Hamborg

Are the "entire" countries running over 50% of clean energy the size of the US with the population of the US? No, they are not and nowhere near. China is a polluted nightmare just keep huffing that communist propaganda because it's not true. China is the #1 builder of coal powered power plants so using them is a poor example because yes I do know what I'm talking about.

Mike Hamborg

This is not about the environment it's about ego and publicity. What about the millions who rely on petro to get to work, power their homes and businesses, let along heat them? Is someone going to spend the money to make sure those people have access to energy and put up the infrastructure fast enough? It's easy to be Arnold when you have enough money to not care about those sorts of things but not to people getting by. Celebrities are not the foremost authority over what is right in this country.

Cason Minor

China is the number 1 producer in clean energy right now and have canceled many of there planned coal production plants. Get back to me when your narrative isn’t so god damn one sided. You have the exact same right to fight for what you believe in as anyone in any profession. You seem to lack manners and/or just really hate this segment of the population. Leonardo DiCaprio is also very passionate about climate and does great work helping grow clean energy and exploiting some of the effects of other sources of energy. He even pays carbon taxes. The idea that clean energy is a bad thing getting back to what I think was your point I find impossible to understand. You are right about China being a pollution nightmare.....they started fighting it very late and have had serious health challenges because of it. I’m hoping most don’t get discouraged by ppl like you who seem to want at every chance to point out that somehow clean energy is a bad thing. New tech transfers jobs it won’t necessarily create a surplus in them. However it’s a much more beneficial job for us and the future of this planet.

Cason Minor

It’s even easier for celebs to not give a fuck about anyone. He spends a great deal of time and money in many areas helping others. Change of course doesn’t happen over night. But it happens. The auto industry will be completely different in 10 years. So will a lot of major cities power grids. It’s exciting......fortunately you will likely get to see it.

Bill Johnson

Someone who cites his sources on fakebook. I'm surprised. Much respect. I wish EVERYONE would.

Mack Tenney

aren't you the one that owns a fucking unimog and humvee that gets 3 gallons to the mile you make me sick!

Rick Hux

Hey AHnold, you sucked as California Governor, you will always be remembered for fathering a child with your housekeeper, your movies suck anymore, why dont you just retire and SHUT UP!

Cason Minor

Nah he'll keep kicking ass as a human being while you sip on all that hatorade

Rick Hux

you sip on AHNOLD ade

Louise McAdoo Wagner

Exactly.

ManVision ManVision

Arnold Schwarzenegger, we are working on improving the solar energy to store solar energy that can give light for week or more without the sun. When the solar energy getts energy from the sun it should be able to store enough solar energy for a week. Do you get what am trying to say? We are looking for funding for this project.

Duncan Antonio Stevens

With regards to the writer below, @[146605843967:274:Bjørn Lomborg], thank you for taking the time to clarify certain points. Yes, the facts you cite are indeed correct. The poor through their use of low grade fossil fuels do indeed help to contribute to air pollution and subsequently die from exposure. However, the issue is that pollution and its subsequent effects, climate change, will affect everything on such a grand scale that these things the poor want; "simple things like their kids not dying from infectious diseases, getting food and a good education. As the very last priority, number 16 of 16, they put “action taken on climate change.”, will be effected by carbon emissions in a way that will make impossible most of the things on that list.

Let's start with how pollution, air, soil, water and land have already begun to begin to act upon food and water futures, which will deny, not only them, but most of the worlds populations from getting decent food.

Recent studies have shown that due to C02 levels rising, that everything from protein to calcium, iron and vitamin C have declined significantly across most garden crops since the 1950s. In short, key nutritional sources are becoming less nutritious due to rising CO2 (i)(ii).

In fact, the change of our atmosphere and subsequent effect on the food we eat, has increased the levels of sugar in basic crops. What happens when humans eat more sugar? You start seeing the emergence of more and more cases of Celiac disease and Diabetes (iii)(iv)[v][vi].

This is merely one consequence. The other being the destruction of biodiversity. The earth has spent millions of years streamlining its systems to be as efficient and balanced as possible barring massive outside forces effecting it such as asteroids, comets etc. Simple things like how the cycle of birth, life, death and decay each have their role. Each organism has their role in making sure that system and its energy is kept in balance so that the overall system stays within normal parameters which allows for life to continue.

The higher the biodiversity the better for the organism called planet earth (vii], ergo, the better for us all. The lower.....then we all suffer. So, if pollution is harming people, can you imagine how it is impacting the other creatures that are as important to our food and water futures. Estimates are that a quarter of all land animals, bird life and plant life will perish [viii] due to pollution and climate change. This takes me back to my prior point about biodiversity being good for the larger organism called planet earth, and lower biodiversity for it, will mean it is really bad for us all.

Also, the way pollution and C02 effect water and the weather are well researched showing that the more our system goes out of whack, the worse our ability to harvest and store water will become. It will also create more flooding and also dryer areas to become dryer with more than 1 billion people experiencing water scarcity....and that means, less food as well as less water. [ix] And who do you think those more than one billion people will be?

Global warming effects on food and living conditions brought on by air pollution (and pollution in general) are manifest. The earth is getting hotter, this in part brought on by poor air quality and higher pollution levels in the atmosphere. This in turn will have an effect on how plants reproduce and when they grow and if they produce fruits/offspring (brought on by the death of other species that wont be able to adapt to higher levels of heat and free radicals in the atmosphere).[x] I am not even going to into how pollutants affect animals, you can go and research that for yourself.

Let's just say, less trees, means less oxygen, higher pollution, higher water run-off and fewer insects and animals. [xi][xii]

Next is the effects of pollution and climate change on diseases: With fewer biodiversity, insects such as Malaria-carrying mosquitoes will increase and will then extend their range, which is just another example of how people will directly be negatively affected. This would first affect the poor in a dramatic way. Then there is the way that air pollution causes a wide range of problems, notably those of a respiratory nature, and allergies increase [xiii][xiv][xv] which you yourself and your sources have sited as a problem if not directly, then indirectly and which the poor want as one of their basic requirements.

Added to this that pollution (methane, C02 etc etc etc) levels have risen so fast in part to the movement of goods and people that is has almost outstripped other contributors. This is again, "air pollution" and will have a devastating effect long term.

The issue is our reliance on fossil fuels, a capitalistic system that consumes without end and farming practices brought on by a population explosion that are so horrendous they not only abuse the animals that we rely on but contribute to methane production at an unprecedented rate. [xvii] But those things have contributed to air pollution and carbon emissions, which have created not only climate change but global warming. What good will a good education be, if you can't get water or food due to a climate which has become inhospitable to life as we know it?[xviii][xix][xx]

I think what @[9269711759:274:Arnold Schwarzenegger] was trying to get at is that air pollution and carbon emissions are one part of a very complicated problem we face, and we HAVE to start breaking the mountain down into small problems to better deal with the issues as quickly as possible. There is no second option here, No plan B, other than the earth unleashing all hell upon itself (which is already beginning, just look at the current trend in the melting of the permafrost due to global warming and what that will mean the release of some seriously nasty things that have lain dormant, much like the Anthrax outbreak in Siberia from thawed out carcasses. [xx][xxi] which doesn't even deal with the released carbon from the thawed permafrost either) in a bid to normalise its systems.

Yes, poverty is also a major issue as the poor's main needs of food, water and shelter have not been met.
Yes, without changing this, we are missing an important element of the bigger picture.
It would mean empowering the poor and give them access to not only free energy, but clean water and nutritional food. By getting innovative green energy solutions to the poor, we can help shift their unsafe and high carbon impact carbon emitting practices to more efficient ones which will also hopefully have an impact upon their lives for the better. For them, and for the first world too.

What they need is access to technology, both energy and devices that help them transcend information barriers. Food is another area that they need help with. All of these things go hand in hand and it is simplistic to try and diminish an observation of one of the area of issues. It diminishes the entire discussion to nothing.

As I have noted above, curbing our carbon/pollution emissions, even if only part of the problem, it will ultimately help everyone and everything in the long term. And this goes back to what Mr. Schwarzenegger was probably at the heart of his post, trying to get at. In a simple analogy: how pollution and air quality affects us, humans. To go into the complexities of the entire thing would take a year to write an entire synopsis and require a couple of books of information here in a post. Which is unfeasible.

Duncan Antonio Stevens

[i] https://www.politico.com/.../food-nutrients-carbon...
[ii] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15637215/
[iii] https://www.the-scientist.com/...
[iv] http://bigthink.com/21st.../is-celiac-disease-on-the-rise
[v] http://www.diabetesforecast.org/.../more-kids-than-ever...
[vi] https://www.theguardian.com/.../diabetes-diagnoses-have...
[vii] https://www.nature.com/.../biodiversity-and-ecosystem...
[viii] https://blog.theecoexperts.co.uk/the-impact-of-global...
[ix] https://www.theguardian.com/.../nov/30/climate-change-water
[x] https://www.brighthub.com/.../science.../articles/46102.aspx
[xi] https://www.sciencedaily.com/rel.../2010/05/100503161435.htm
[xii] https://www.thoughtco.com/how-wildlife-affected-by-global-warming-1203849
[xiii] https://blog.theecoexperts.co.uk/the-impact-of-global...
[xiv] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736369/
[xv] https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S166557961730011X
[xvi] https://whatsyourimpact.org/gree.../carbon-dioxide-emissions
[xvii] https://whatsyourimpact.org/greenhouse-gases/carbon-dioxide-emissions
[xviii] https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-impacts-human-health_.html
[xix] https://health2016.globalchange.gov/climate-change-and-human-health
[xx] https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/human-health
[xxi] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575974220/are-there-zombie-viruses-in-the-thawing-permafrost

Chrissy Daniels

Not keen on many Republicans but love one with a common sense progressive attitude 👍

Patricia Basaldua

I'm not so worried about this as I am on a book called DART WINTER. HOW THE SUN IS CAUSING A 30-YEAR COLD SPELL by JOHN L. CASEY.

Patricia Basaldua

thats a k for dark.

Lester Armstead

This is why I don't listen to celebrities when they try to act smart. Door number 2 must include the power source for the electric car. Electricity is not magic.

Cason Minor

magic no, better than what we have yes.....this is why people suck.

Mwanahamisi Ally

Nice

Jim Hooper

Save Mother Earth as long as it’s easy... this approach will “get ‘er done” .Come on ... you know it ‘s simply a gutless gesture...

Chad Underdonk

No Jim, forcing others to do as you wish because you are incapable of convincing them is a gutless gesture. Unless that is you plan to be the one putting the boot on other people's necks personally.

Joakim Rutegård

Arnold earlier stated the fact that there is no left or right political wings concerning the air, water, etc since we all use the same. To make Door number 2 political is therefore a dead-end. So is also theoretical mathematics in this case- there's no rocket science involved, just common sense!

Ole-Martin Waag Strømsvik

If anyone is reading this, what genre is this text?

Piccolo Pollo

climate change...a lot of changes need to be made, starting with car pollution, especially air borne pollutions! and no sugar coated bullets for example sweet smelling air fresheners that contain nasty gases that we still don't know the long term effects of yet...trams back in fashion...trains cheaper...and metro links are a lot more energy sufficient and cleaner but the solar powered car roofs with battery operated engines that pump nothing in thee air are definitely a must do....turn earth into more cleaner way of life. please look at other countries for inspiration for e.g Switzerland Norway Denmark and other countries that put the interests of their country first and the health of the people and animals (poor little things) FIRST! always first! xxxx I think u are doing a great job by the way keep it up!

Paul O'Donnell

Your first question, if we reach that point (burnt all the fossil fuels) the earth will heat up to what it was before life was able to live with the extreme heat on land. Long long before pumping all the CO2 back into the atmosphere humans are dead, along with the rest of the life on land, just water creatures left. Total stupidity to accept reaching this point by burning all the fossil fuel. You really don't think though some of the things you say now do you?

Derek H Case

This is the best point.

Patrick Stantiford

Have you given up traveling by private jet? Why should I take any of you elites seriously when I see your Gulfstream aircraft and mega yachts?

Greg Bailey

Gotta love Arnie!
What an amazing guy!

4timesayear

"Renewable energy is great for the economy" Arnold, just how many renewable corporations have failed? You haven't been paying attention, have you? These companies cannot exist w/o subsidies. Time to stop pretending they're "good for the economy". Easy to be generous with other people's money - and some of us have precious little to spare. Btw, you need to go back to school. This whole renewables thing is about CO2 - which is most definitely not pollution. But something else you need to know about renewables - green energy isn't "clean" http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/pf_bio.htm
. As a matter of fact, they don't count CO2 from renewables at all. That's essentially fraudhttp://www.pfpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Searchinger-et-al-2009.pdf. Ethanol takes a bunch of extra steps to produce and causes more pollution in the long run. Unlike gasoline, ethanol has ozone emissions that really do make it more difficult for people with asthma and respiratory problems http://www.scientificamerican.com/…/ethanol-fuels-ozone-po…/
. Atmospheric CO2 isn't at all harmful to humans. You exhale a lot more than what's in the air. One more thing: according to the EPA all renewables take more people/energy unit to produce. If you were much of a businessman, you'd understand why that's bad - because the more people it takes to produce something, the more it costs. Do your research, please. Renewables are most definitely not good for the economy and they're not good for the environment. Try moving in different circles once in a while and you'd see the effect of the current policies on the poor.

Cason Minor

@[360297500785985:274:4timesayear] oh look a troll account

Cason Minor

Nice source lol hot garbage

Ingrid Srubjan

Well and inspiringly said!

Jon Bayliss

#d4damage #powertothepeople

Greg Bailey

Paul Martin Tøraasen, a half-truth is as good as a lie.

Greg Bailey

Jose Luis Solis Taylor and you graduated in climate science?? Or what?
I guess ignorance is bliss after all.

Alina Spheres

Wish he lived what he preached.

Doug Skillmore

that is more than 3 questions arnold............

Steve Smith

www.climateviewer.com/enmod

Tom Hoeltgen

What is being used to generate the electricity for the car. Probably coal.

George Iustitia

Schwarzenegger is an idiot with little or no understanding of environmental science, as are most on the Left. Should we be studying new technologies and improving the ones we have now? ABSOLUTELY. No issue with that, but the "climate change" issue as it stands isn't about that, it's about promoting socialism and a globalist agenda at the cost of our freedom. I have yet to see the Leftists protest the embassies of China or India over their "get out of jail free" card from the Paris conference regarding pollution levels.

George Iustitia

Keeping it livable is noble (and something Conservatives generally support), however the environmental movement has been hijacked by leftists in an attempt to protect the economies of certain countries (China, India, etc.) at the expense of our economy. In fact, the US is per capita one of the least-polluting countries in the world. Funny how we don't see the same level of concern over Chinese pollution (and it's so bad people have to wear masks in the cities).

Heath Myers

GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bruno Wright

Richard Parks ironic? You really didn’t get the analogy? Not advocating for cars v horses. Kind of blunts any argument you propose.....wait, there was no argument or discussion.
I think both you and I would prefer a cleaner healthier planet and it will involve fossil fuels for a time.
Technology and innovation have both saved us and damned us but through education we slowly learn how to live, not just survive, on this earth.

Mark Soldan

I challenge you to name 3 of these scientists you are referring to.

William Bennett

"We should be heading into another ice age right now," Sandstrom told Live Science.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/58407-how-often-do-ice-ages-happen.html

James O'Connor

Haarp causes Global Warming patent is online

Mary Hewitson

But the temperature of the earth only .9 higher or diff since turn of the century....proven

Cason Minor

Mary Hewitson so your saying climate change is real, k thx

Aly Lamb

@[504439864:2048:Julian Clark] boss

Matthew Farthing

>>>Are we due for another ice age?
Based on previous cycles the Earth is probably due to go into an ice age about now. In fact, conditions were starting to line up for a new ice age at least 6,000 years ago.

"If you look at what was happening prior to the industrial revolution, summers were actually getting colder in the northern hemisphere. They've been getting colder for at least the last 6,000 years, so we were definitely on that trend," Dr Phipps said.<<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-06-15/what-is-an-ice-age-explainer/7185002

Wendy Christine

How was the electric made for the car in door number two? Where did the electricity to run it come from? What made the electric?

Kurt Womack

Evacuated from your sprawling mansion in Brentwood? I see it's surrounded by a forest that was planted. Were you smart enough to install a gas generator, that could run the mandated fire sprinkler system? I see a swimming pool, that could have been hooked up to the sprinkler system, and perhaps a water cannon, so you could terminate the flames around your estate. Let me guess, it's our fault that fire is happening, I should live like a Third World peasant to stop this alleged "climate crisis".

Roger Phillips

With you all the way - I have the solution - WWW.MIGHTYWATTS.COM --FB, TWITTER, STOP CLAIMS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND ELECTRICITY - They do not want a solution. Other org's and foundations are just in biz to stay in biz - just send the donations. What I have is the real deal.

Roger Phillips

I'm with you all the way. I have the solution - WWW.MIGHTYWATTS.COM - FB, AND TWITTER STOP CLAIMS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND ELECTRICITY - HOW THE HECK CAN WE FIND SOLUTIONS FROM THE PEOPLE, I thought there was freedom of speech. Anyway read the website - It's the real deal.

Justin Clark

@[100004230518497:2048:Brian Patterson]

T Liz Arde

Overall this is probably true, but eating local unpredated fauna is probably better for the planet than I dunno, imported soy.
That said, I’m not a hunter.

T Liz Arde

@[607343000:2048:Sagan Olsen] , too many companies are invested only in the status quo, and they support the media through ads, etc. So it’s either not covered enough or it’s maligned.

Some people can think critically about this. Some people understand the importance of peer-reviewed research.

If that varies by party and why...probably many reasons.

T Liz Arde

Corporate interests.

T Liz Arde

Hawk Allerby Nah, it’s pretty obvious no information or facts are ever going to change your mind. It was impermeable to your teachers, no commenter is going to change that.

T Liz Arde

Hawk Allerby Also, lol socialism? He hates it. He grew up under Soviet rule and got the heck out. That’s why he’s even in America.

You’re in that community and you don’t even know that much about him?? Jesus, dude, read something.

T Liz Arde

Olav I think your premise should be reversed.
It’s not whether or not we caused it but what we can do to mitigate and prevent effects in the future.

T Liz Arde

Ideally, developing countries would transition to clean energy sooner without going through the coal/ oil stage very long.

T Liz Arde

Jared Caldwell I thought pointing out that wood and dung are renewable was a legit point. Perhaps a pedantic one, but still, when talking about developing countries, sure, fossil fuel is less polluting.
Clean energy then? Probably “cleaner energy”, rather than renewable.
Also, cow poop is free, to convince indigent people to use something else, it will have to be cheap and clearly beneficial.

T Liz Arde

Rob Cuthbertson People for whom there is no short term cost associated with dung and wood.

Eugene Baleme

I don't believe in human caused change but I know we must stop burning oil to power our needs and stop all the damage we do that effects the health of us and our planet. Embrace HEMP and other ways putting us on a better path. Stop the plastic and embrace biodegradable.

Steve Hucker

Who else had Arnold's voice in their head when reading his article

John Dawson

It is simply UNBELIEVABLE that a man of such fantastic accomplishments, a man who was governor of one of the largest economies of the world, can be so PIG IGNORANT about an issue of such importance. The CO2 emitted from fossil fuels, which is the greenhouse gas that Arnold's worried about, DOESN'T KILL ANYONE. CO2 doesn’t harm animals like us until it reaches about 2.5% (25,000ppm), and it is beneficial to plants, so unless you are trapped in a broken down submarine or space station, you don't have anything to fear from CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. Since Arnold CANNOT be ignorant of such a basic fact, the only conclusion we can come to is that he is deliberately trying to blur the distinction between CO2 that he says is warming the planet, and soot and other such pollutants that OLD coal fired power plants in Eastern Block countries and China emit. You don't have to stop using coal to stop people dying from that, you just apply scrubbers to clean the fumes as all the power plants in advanced nations do. So what are you Arnold, rearly rearly ignorant, or rearly rearly dishonest? The same question applies to the rest of the nonsense he's on about.

John Dawson

The plan, Arnold, is to burn fossil fuels in a way that produces no pollution, as has been the case for decades in advanced economies. Many centuries down the track, when fossil fuels get harder to find, their price will rise, which will make other sources of power more competitive, so those alternatives will gradually take over as the main power supply. If you think they will run out sooner, then you will make another billion by investing in renewables – but don’t think you have a right to make that billion by regulating against fossil fuels and subsidising alternatives, at our expense.

Ron Crocie

Its bullshit

Kriszta Szilvia Fodor

John Short

Water isn't used up . It don't disappear because we drink it. Water will show up some where and it cleanses itself.

Leif Gunhild Warpa Persson

This doesn't focus on cars you daft did, it uses cars in the end to explain a situation with pollution, but hey, be an idiot and focus on the word car.

This raises the awareness for pollution coming from fossil fuels, also coal, which is quite large.

But hey, don't wanna follow the times? Hope you'll leave this earth very soon to make way for the people who want to look forward and change it for the better! 😊

Barbara Ann Wilkinson

@[100007757641839:2048:Leif Gunhild Warpa Persson] you must live in California 😂

James Lorenzo

Brilliant. Astronauts call it: "LIFE SUPPORT"!

Jeremy Keith Whitehead

@[100000533885579:2048:Mike Hitschmann] apparently, global population will fall dramatically over the next few decades. other than that, i agree with you

Mike Hitschmann

Jeremy Keith Whitehead anything involving a dramatic decrease in the human population is only beneficial for the planet and the environment - unfortunately I think that the morons will outbreed the rest of us so that doesn't augur well for what caliber of humans will dominate...

Cherryl Harris

@[9269711759:274:Arnold Schwarzenegger] .. this came across my memories and this is so relevant at this moment. We’re in trouble and still the same naysayers too.

Cherryl Harris

@[100000533885579:2048:Mike Hitschmann] this came up on my memories - still relevant - and just thinking about how beautiful the air was becoming in some cities during lockdown this year and all the wildlife that would walk the world like they used to .. you were wrong about not seeing it in your lifetime.

Cherryl Harris

@[1319032439:2048:Jeremy Keith Whitehead] .. this came across my memories and I saw this comment and your comment also .. foretelling. 😢

Gary Mills

@[100000124428599:2048:Mark Hewitt]

Trisha Mair

@[100000012921152:2048:Sarah Anne Mair] @[100007754583316:2048:Jessica Mair] With lots love 👌👌👍👍💞💞💞

Jim Plank

Where did the electricity for your electric car come from. Fairy dust. And one more how can a grid that you neglected in this state suppose to handle the electricity to power all those clean cars . And another one how many children are we killing mining cobalt for your batteries in other countries . And another the how do you justify the way we’re are killing thousand In foreign countries , disposing not recycling of thes batteries shipping them back and forth from conception to disposal on massive polluting cargo ships . That burn more fuel than gasoline powered cars by far and fill the oceans with plastic garbage oil sludge human waste and anything else the can throw overboard . You thing those Chinese vessels flagged to other countries care at all ? Some of us have studied this stuff and your geeen is far from it and a disgusting fraud on most people who have no clue. Figure out how to keep the lights on in kal. Ee. Foneaaa! As you call it before you spout this crap. You can’t even manage to do that . Fairy dust unicorns and rainbows . You don’t fool all of us guv . Get another facelift and make another phoney terminator movie . At least you were good at that!