I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change.

[desrt]

https://www.************/notes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-about-climate-change/10153855713574658


"I see your questions.
Each and every time I post on my Facebook page or tweet about my crusade for a clean energy future, I see them.
There are always a few of you, asking why we should care about the temperature rising, or questioning the science of climate change.
I want you to know that I hear you. Even those of you who say renewable energy is a conspiracy. Even those who say climate change is a hoax. Even those of you who use four letter words.
I've heard all of your questions, and now I have three questions for you.
Let's put climate change aside for a minute. In fact, let's assume you're right.
First - do you believe it is acceptable that 7 million people die every year from pollution? That's more than murders, suicides, and car accidents - combined.
Every day, 19,000 people die from pollution from fossil fuels. Do you accept those deaths? Do you accept that children all over the world have to grow up breathing with inhalers?
Now, my second question: do you believe coal and oil will be the fuels of the future?
Besides the fact that fossil fuels destroy our lungs, everyone agrees that eventually they will run out. What's your plan then?
I, personally, want a plan. I don't want to be like the last horse and buggy salesman who was holding out as cars took over the roads. I don't want to be the last investor in Blockbuster as Netflix emerged. That's exactly what is going to happen to fossil fuels.
A clean energy future is a wise investment, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either wrong, or lying. Either way, I wouldn't take their investment advice.
Renewable energy is great for the economy, and you don't have to take my word for it. California has some of the most revolutionary environmental laws in the United States, we get 40% of our power from renewables, and we are 40% more energy efficient than the rest of the country. We were an early-adopter of a clean energy future.
Our economy has not suffered. In fact, our economy in California is growing faster than the U.S. economy. We lead the nation in manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, entertainment, high tech, biotech, and, of course, green tech.
I have a final question, and it will take some imagination.
There are two doors. Behind Door Number One is a completely sealed room, with a regular, gasoline-fueled car. Behind Door Number Two is an identical, completely sealed room, with an electric car. Both engines are running full blast.
I want you to pick a door to open, and enter the room and shut the door behind you. You have to stay in the room you choose for one hour. You cannot turn off the engine. You do not get a gas mask.
I'm guessing you chose the Door Number Two, with the electric car, right? Door number one is a fatal choice - who would ever want to breathe those fumes?
This is the choice the world is making right now.
To use one of the four-letter words all of you commenters love, I don't give a damn if you believe in climate change. I couldn’t care less if you're concerned about temperatures rising or melting glaciers. It doesn't matter to me which of us is right about the science.
I just hope that you'll join me in opening Door Number Two, to a smarter, cleaner, healthier, more profitable energy future."

[orphanedhawk]

I HAVE to keep the hope up, or I might fall to pieces.

Having said that I will say that in my opinion the number one problem in the world is overpopulation, something too few want to talk about let alone try to do anything about.

Another to help not defund, planned parenthood. We need as much birth control as possible.

[brice1967]

You've got too much hope.  You're talking about hundreds of millions of people who know nothing about the problem and or change.

[orphanedhawk]

I never would have thought those words would come from Arnie. But like with Naomi Klein's new movie This Changes Everything, it's true, the time is way past for us to begin to change the way things are done. Fossil fuels need to stay in the ground and various alternatives need to be put into place asap.
Brice, sadly the developing countries are only following in our footsteps. China will change if it is profitable for them to do so.

[brice1967]

The stuff happening in China would never happen here.  We have an ever benevolent government and numerous government entities looking out for us.

[ajadamama]

racing extinction. A film everyone needs to view. It is very very eye opening in ways you would not even imagine. I watched it on the discovery channel and recorded it for a second view. If anyone had any doubts before they will not after seeing it. And as an afterthought. In china today, people were told to stay indoors and businesses told to shutdown etc.....That was no hoax for those people.

[Vance2335]

There you go...Koch and Cheney...of course.

[desrt]

Yeah, Arnold's a little 'horse and buggy' with his panels, when solar concentrating with steam power is where it's at. Call it a transitional technology. It'll be easier to clean up than nukes in the long run.

Still, big picture. Grade B movie actor - brick layer - body builder gets a 'B' for his science/logic. Best faux scientists Koch/Cheney money can buy still get an 'F'.

[brice1967]

Arnold is for it?  Ah, then I'm against it on principle alone.  Doesn't Arnold know what we are doing with the toxic by-products in the aftermath of manufacturing solar panels?  Most folks don't but the EPA doesn't want to clean those places and prefer to just fence them off.

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/solar-panel-toxic-manufacturing-byproducts-product-disposal-needs-greater-oversight-report-urges.html

This pertains mostly to another country, but google it....  Using/burning fossil fuels, creating toxic crap that nobody knows what to do with..... seems reasonable to me....  Hippies even dislike it....