Arnold Schwarzenegger has slammed climate change deniers, saying he ‘doesn’t give a damn’ if they believe in it or not.
The bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-politician posted an epic rant on his Facebook page, where said he doesn’t care who is right or wrong on climate change – green energy is an investment.
The Terminator star, who is in Paris for the UN climate conference, also urged people to seek alternative sources of protein and avoid eating meat in order to save the planet.
In a rant posted on Schwarzenegger’s Facebook page yesterday, he told doubters that he didn’t ‘give a damn’ if they disagreed with him.
He wrote: ‘To use one of the four-letter words all of you commenters love, I don’t give a damn if you believe in climate change. I couldn’t care less if you’re concerned about temperatures rising or melting glaciers. It doesn’t matter to me which of us is right about the science. A clean energy future is a wise investment, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either wrong, or lying. Either way, I wouldn’t take their investment advice.’
Schwarzenegger, who once uttered the phrase ‘You hit like a vegetarian’, told the BBC: ‘Twenty-eight per cent of the greenhouse gasses come from eating meat and from raising cattle, so we can do a much better job.’
When it was suggested it may be hypocritical for a bodybuilder to ask people to consume less red meat, he said: ‘Luckily we know that you can get your protein source from many different ways, you can get it through vegetables if you are a vegetarian. I have seen many body builders that are vegetarian and they get strong and healthy.’
Generally meat from mammals (for example cattle, horse meat, bull meat) and meat from hunting (wild boars, deer, pigeons, partridges, quail and pheasant) excluding fish and insects are considered red meat. Although poultry usually considered white, duck and goose are red.