VIENNA (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair on the method of President Donald Trump’s administration: “Stop whining and get to work.”
The new U.S. administration has taken an ax to Biden-era environmental ambitions, rolled again landmark laws, withdrawn local weather venture funding and as an alternative bolstered help for oil and gasoline manufacturing within the identify of an “American energy dominance” agenda.
Schwarzenegger, the previous Republican governor of California, has devoted time to environmental causes since leaving political workplace in 2011.
He stated Tuesday he retains listening to from environmentalists and coverage specialists these days who ask, “What is the point of fighting for a clean environment when the government of the United States says climate change is a hoax and coal and oil is the future?”
Schwarzenegger advised the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, an occasion he helps set up, that he responds: “Stop whining and get to work.”
He pointed to examples of native and regional governments and firms taking motion, together with his personal administration in California, and argued 70% of air pollution is diminished on the native or state stage.
“Be the mayor that makes buses electric; be the CEO who ends fossil fuel dependence; be the school that puts (up) solar roofs,” he stated.
“You can’t just sit around and make excuses because one guy in a very nice White House on Pennsylvania Avenue doesn’t agree with you,” he stated, including that attacking the president is “not my style” and he doesn’t criticize any president when exterior the U.S.
“I know that the people are sick and tired of the whining and the complaining and the doom and gloom,” Schwarzenegger stated. “The only way we win the people’s hearts and minds is by showing them action that makes their lives better.”
