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“Common sense”: Schwarzenegger praises his giant eco-SUV - and reprimands climate activists

2021-08-10T08:12:35.555Z


Arnold Schwarzenegger has always been a man of contradictions - in an interview he now stages himself on a tightrope walk between pomp and renunciation.


Arnold Schwarzenegger has always been a man of contradictions - in an interview he now stages himself on a tightrope walk between pomp and renunciation.

Los Angeles - A huge property, a large fleet of vehicles and a life of luxury: the Austrian actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been living his dream of luxury and wealth for years.

In an interview with

Der Spiegel

, he now devoted himself to the subject of renunciation - and his expectations and ideas of environmental protection.

In the interview with the news magazine he said: “You don't have to do without anything to change the world” and sees himself as living proof.

The Austrian has a 1500m² property, a fleet of vehicles with several off-road vehicles, swimming pools in the garden and his own tennis court and horse stable.

And he sees himself as a climate protection pioneer, as he indicated.

Ex-Governor Schwarzenegger is strongly committed to environmental protection

“We must not indulge in the doom and gloom” declared Schwarzenegger - well before the presentation of the new global climate report - and referred to his time as Republican governor of California. From the beginning of his seven-year tenure in 2003, he made massive progress in environmental protection in California. Schwarzenegger's arguments: He signed a number of environmental laws - such as the Global Warming Solutions Act, a law to massively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 -, regulated the auto industry by imposing strict fuel consumption standards, and gave the California environmental authority cabinet status.

Today he has retired from his political role and sees himself - according to his own statements - in a neutral role.

He can no longer be assigned to any political wing, everything he represents is common sense, he reveals to the

mirror

.

And with this he also tries to convince the population of more environmentally conscious behavior.

Schwarzenegger sees climate protection as a question of correct communication

He doesn't think much of the current approach of the environmental movements. The environmental movement train "biceps, triceps, quadriceps, the chest muscles, the trapezius, the deltoids and the calf muscles at the same time and makes itself and the public ready," Schwarzenegger told the

mirror

. In his opinion, one can “only ever concentrate on one thing”, this is also the case with environmental protection.

For him, “everything is a question of correct communication”. In his opinion, the climate protection debate needs an enemy that everyone knows. At his climate conference, the Austrian World Summit, which he launched five years ago, the Hollywood star himself speaks of pollution and not of climate change. "It's not climate change that kills seven million people every year, it's pollution," he emphasized again.

In this point, the native Austrian obviously sees himself as a pioneer - despite material abundance. For example, he has reportedly installed solar panels on his property that he uses to operate his pools. He praised his giant SUVs as an argument in his favor: That's why I equipped one of my Hummer with a hydrogen engine, and my military Hummer now runs on biofuel, and that wasn't even that expensive, it cost $ 3,000, "said Schwarzenegger. "I can now drive my military Humvee to the nearest hamburger shop, fill my tank with the old frying oil and drive off."

He hopes to be able to show himself above all to the doubters of climate change that one can consume unrepentantly and not necessarily have to do without in order to change the world: "You don't have to give up your trucks as long as they are clean," he explained in the interview among other things.

(klb)

Source: merkur

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