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.
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Go back to Austria you fool
Let’s slap a public health warning on environmentalists.
I thought that was San Francisco and Berkeley.
They already do at gas pumps.
I could have swore this guy was a Republican? Oh wait, a Kalifornia Republican with Massachusetts Democrat views.
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.
Are we going to slap a public health warning on Arnie’s private jet? Arnold the hypocrite.
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!
Good thing arnold got into acting and California politics. He couldn’t make it in the real world.
Hewitt is still on Salem Radio and has an MSNBC show.
Let’s just slap all foreigners.
IKR! He’s gone off the deep end. Time for him to go away.
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.
Muscle man becomes muscle head.
Does he know how much he sounds like a commie?
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.
So when Arnie and his ilk need ambulances they will be required to wait for horse drawn ones.
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