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1/31/13, "Schwarzenegger Calls for 'Hip, Sexy' Environmentalism," AFP via Breitbart
"Arnold Schwarzenegger called Thursday for an end to "doom and gloom"
environmentalism as he hosted the first conference of his new green
movement fostering action by local governments and individuals.
"If we want to inspire the world, it is time for us to forget about
the old way of talking about climate change, where we crush people,
where we overwhelm people with data," the former California governor,
bodybuilder and film star said.
"There is a new way, a more sexy, a more hip way. Instead of using
doom and gloom and telling people what they can't do, we should make
them part of our movement and tell them what they can do," he said.
"I mean I still drive my Hummers but now they are all on hydrogen and
biofuel ... We need to send a message that we can live the same life,
just with cleaner technology."
Following his success implementing environmental legislation in
California
ahead of federal US action,
Schwarzenegger's created the R20
Regions of Climate Action movement in 2010.
It is aimed at getting other regions, states and cities to follow the
Golden State's example in the absence of effective national and
international agreements on reducing carbon emissions widely blamed for
the Earth's climate becoming more volatile in recent decades.
"The old way was to wait for the capitals, or an international
agreement to create a sustainable energy future, is over,"
Schwarzenegger, 65, told the conference of around 800 people in his
native Austria.
"We believe in a new way, in moving forward at a subnational level.
We can't be paralysed, waiting for an international agreement or federal
action or anything else," Schwarzenegger said.
"I believe we should move forward at a subnational level, in the
states, in the provinces, in the cities, in the private sector, in the
academic sector and in the non-profits. These should be defined by our
momentum, not our hesitation."
Attendees in Vienna included Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission
president, but absent were green pressure groups such as Greenpeace or
WWF, who complained last week that the
event risked being "elitist" and
"Greenwashing.""
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