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December 17, 2023

Actor, former California governor and Kennedy clan outcast Arnold Schwarzenegger has a problem with “climate change.” No, it’s not the theory. He’s on board with that. It’s the wording.

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Comments he made to CBS Sunday Morning back in May, which may have been overshadowed by other news, have resurfaced to make the rounds on social media, where he told reporter Tracy Smith in an interview, “As long as they keep talking about global climate change, they are not gonna go anywhere. ‘Cause no one gives a s— about that.”

He added, “Let’s go and rephrase this and communicate differently about it and really tell people — we’re talking about pollution. Pollution creates climate change, and pollution kills.”

What’s old is new again when it comes to messaging. The 76-year-old former bodybuilder, cigar aficionado, and the owner of a fleet of gas-guzzling, 10,000-pound Hummer SUVs, wants to go back to the terminology before “climate change,” before “global warming,” and to the 1960s-vintage “pollution,” a word that means absolutely nothing to Millennials or Gen Z.

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Still, the father-in-law of actor Chris Pratt knows a thing or two about words. Who could forget when he made big news of his own for his word choice in August 2021?  That was when he attacked people who opposed mask, vaccine, and other fruitless COVID mandates.

In an interview on CNN, he famously said, “There is a virus here. It kills people and the only way we prevent it is: get vaccinated, wear masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, ‘Well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.’ No, screw your freedom,” Schwarzenegger said.

“You have the freedom to wear no mask — but you know something? You’re a schmuck for not wearing a mask. Because you are supposed to protect your fellow Americans around you.”

Even by then, it was widely known that none of the measures he listed prevented spread. But on one thing he was clear, your basic freedoms are revocable.

So, now, the climate activist and the son of Nazi Gustav Schwarzenegger, wants to reframe the climate debate. He wants words that scare, and he doesn’t think “climate change” is scary enough. It doesn’t evoke enough emotion to get the masses to trust governments, NGOs, and others to make decisions for them on what’s for their own good. He doesn’t believe so long as “climate change” is the brand, enough freedom-loving human beings around the world will easily surrender their basic human rights and freedoms.

As we have learned, no matter what, the solution to saving the planet has to involve some form of force where you give up certain rights and freedoms.