‘No one gives a s— about’ climate change, rebrand it

Global efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change are being paralyzed by fundamental communication problems, says Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“As long as they keep talking about global climate change, they’re not going anywhere. Because no one doubts it,” Schwarzenegger told CBS’s “Sunday Morning” reporter Tracy Smith in a segment that aired on sunday.

“So I mean, let’s reword it and communicate it differently and really tell people — we’re talking about pollution. Pollution causes climate change, and pollution kills,” Schwarzenegger said.

The 75-year-old bodybuilder, actor and former governor of California Austrian World SummitGlobal Climate Change Conference.

“I’m on a mission to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions,” Schwarzenegger told CBS, “because I want to have a healthy body and a healthy planet. That’s what I’m fighting for. That’s my crusade Eastern Expedition.”

Anthropogenic global warming is caused by increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide, when Combustion of fossil fuels such as coal and oil.

In recent years, the fight against climate change has gained momentum.Global investment in producing clean energy—that is, energy that doesn’t produce greenhouse gases—is outpacing global investment in fossil fuels, according to International Energy Agency. By 2023, an estimated $1.7 trillion will be spent on clean technologies, including renewable energy, electric vehicles, nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emission fuels, efficiency improvements, and heat pumps.That’s more than the roughly $1 trillion expected to spend on coal, gas and oil, the IEA said in a report report released Thursday.

Even so, global emissions from global energy are still rising, albeit by only 1% in 2022, below feared levels, The International Energy Agency said in March.

With global carbon emissions at record levels, there is a 50% chance that global warming will exceed the Paris climate agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels within nine years, According to the annual update released in November by the Global Carbon Project science teaman international scientific collaboration to measure global carbon emissions.

Efforts to combat climate change have increased substantially, but remain insufficient.

In the U.S., 54 percent of U.S. adults believe climate change is a major threat to national well-being, according to Survey data from the Pew Research Center. This national average includes significant splits along party lines. Nearly eight in 10 Democrats (78%) say climate change is a major threat to national well-being, up from 58% a decade ago. Meanwhile, only about a quarter (23%) of Republicans say climate change is a major threat to national well-being, little changed from the 22% of Republicans who reported climate change as a major threat in 2013. Pew Research Center data.

Schwarzenegger previously wrote a column usa today He called for a rebranding of communications around climate change.

“We need a new environmentalism based on building and growing and common sense. The old environmentalism was afraid of growth. It hated architecture. Many of you know the style – protesting every new development, chaining yourself to architecture devices, and use lawsuits and licensing to slow everything down,” Schwarzenegger wrote in a May 16 column for USA TODAY.

“Today I’m calling for a new kind of environmentalism, based on building the clean energy projects we need as quickly as possible. We have to build, build, build,” Schwarzenegger said.