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Schwarzenegger: Let's slap a public health warning on fossil fuels
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Posted on 11/12/2017 12:23:35 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Schwarzenegger: Let's slap a public health warning on fossil fuels Megan Rowling

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BONN, Germany, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and Hollywood actor and film producer, issued a challenge on Sunday to governments to start labelling fossil fuels with a public health warning that their use could cause illness and death.

He lauded the World Health Organization (WHO) for sealing a 164-nation tobacco control pact in 2003 that led to consumers of cigarettes and cigars being alerted to the health risks of smoking, including lung cancer.

A similar accord could be put in place for products derived from fossil fuels such as oil and coal, which emit planet-warming gases when burned, said the politician and environmental activist.

“Wouldn’t it be great now if they could... make the same pact with the rest of the world to go and say, ‘Let’s label another thing that is killing you - which is fossil fuels,'” he said to applause on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Bonn.

Schwarzenegger suggested telling customers at petrol stations that “what you pump into your tank may kill you”, and plastering oil tankers driving along highways with messages that their contents are dangerous to health.

“Here’s a challenge for you guys,” he said, directly addressing WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who spoke at the same event.

Schwarzenegger lamented that environmental pollution - estimated to kill more than 9 million people per year in all its forms - was rarely discussed at conferences on climate change. About two-thirds of those deaths are from air pollution.

“This is a massive tragedy - and as depressing and terrifying as it is, we are not talking about it enough,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arnoldinstitute; bonnunclimatechange; climatechangefraud; climatgechangefraud; fakescience; schwarzenegger
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To: Sub-Driver
Arnold, I want to see you driving around in a Smart car. Otherwise, just shut your yap!
61 posted on 11/12/2017 2:12:17 PM PST by Moorings
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To: Sub-Driver

Go back to Austria you fool


62 posted on 11/12/2017 2:15:02 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Sub-Driver

Let’s slap a public health warning on environmentalists.


63 posted on 11/12/2017 2:15:07 PM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Don Corleone

I thought that was San Francisco and Berkeley.


64 posted on 11/12/2017 2:16:09 PM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Sub-Driver

They already do at gas pumps.


65 posted on 11/12/2017 2:30:50 PM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I could have swore this guy was a Republican? Oh wait, a Kalifornia Republican with Massachusetts Democrat views.


66 posted on 11/12/2017 2:45:08 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: Sub-Driver
Hey Arnold, you're not supposed to drink or breathe in the stuff; I guess only liberals need to be warned.

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67 posted on 11/12/2017 3:07:15 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: Sirius Lee

I understand that when he signed some bill or another that pissed off the sheisskopf tourist bureau of the government of his little hometown in Austria, so they decided to take his name off of their local soccer stadium. I wrote to them at the time and suggested that it be changed to Schickelgruber. They wrote back says they didn’t like my suggestion.


68 posted on 11/12/2017 3:07:23 PM PST by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Are we going to slap a public health warning on Arnie’s private jet? Arnold the hypocrite.


69 posted on 11/12/2017 3:15:30 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: Sub-Driver

I live in California, and this blithering idiot who cheated on his wife with an unattractive housekeeper, getting her pregnant, was just a bad a governor as Pat Brown (father of Moonbeam), Jerry Brown, and Gray Davis.

Arnold, you make the late Rodney King of LA police beating fame, known for his low IQ, look like a genius, especially when you wear those budgie smuggler Speedo bathing suits. All that fat hanging out everywhere - ugh!


70 posted on 11/12/2017 3:23:55 PM PST by CdMGuy
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To: Sub-Driver

Good thing arnold got into acting and California politics. He couldn’t make it in the real world.


71 posted on 11/12/2017 3:28:03 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: x1stcav

Hewitt is still on Salem Radio and has an MSNBC show.


72 posted on 11/12/2017 3:34:55 PM PST by Pelham
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To: Pelham

Let’s just slap all foreigners.


73 posted on 11/12/2017 3:54:30 PM PST by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

IKR! He’s gone off the deep end. Time for him to go away.


74 posted on 11/12/2017 3:58:44 PM PST by softengine
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To: Sub-Driver

The Girly Man speaks, Arnold is so stupid, he actually thinks he is relevant when the vast majority of Americans think he is the fool.


75 posted on 11/12/2017 4:10:55 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Muscle man becomes muscle head.


76 posted on 11/12/2017 4:49:11 PM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: Sub-Driver

Does he know how much he sounds like a commie?


77 posted on 11/12/2017 6:50:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Arnold needs to lead by example.

Let’s see him give up fossil-fueled vehicles, completely.

And then, to prove that he and his liberal buddies are serious on the issue, let’s see them all also set the example, by giving up their use of fossil-fueled vehicles.

Only then will they be able to point the finger at those that are “killing the planet”. Until then, Arnold and all liberals are just being very hypocritical, because, they are being complicit “killing the planet” too.


78 posted on 11/12/2017 7:02:32 PM PST by adorno
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Sub-Driver. Oh, and speaking of bull, let's not forget to slap one on each cow, steer, calf, and bull.
79 posted on 11/12/2017 7:31:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

So when Arnie and his ilk need ambulances they will be required to wait for horse drawn ones.


80 posted on 11/12/2017 8:16:39 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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