"Environmentalists are behind the times. And need to catch up fast." by Arnold Schwarzenegger, USA Today, 16 May 2023 (edited version of his Austrian World Summit speech that day)

Arnold Schwarzenegger · 16 May 2023

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The climate movement should talk about pollution and the people it kills rather than about climate change

Their wordsWhen I got involved, one of the first things I saw was that our marketing wasn’t working. We were talking about climate change when we should have been talking about pollution and the 7 million people who die every year choking on air poisoned by fossil fuels.
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Environmentalism should be based on building and growth rather than opposing development

Their wordsWe need a new environmentalism based on building and growing and common sense. Old environmentalism was afraid of growth. It hated building.

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