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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Let's slap a public health warning on liberal politicians...........
Shut up Arnold, you are emitting too much CO2.
Benedict Arnold (schwarzenneger)
Bingo! And revolving door judges. I’m getting sick and tired reading about thugs getting arrested for murder with “40 prior arrests” and then the left blaming the murder on the gun.
The only thing we should be slapping is your wrinkled face Aaaaanold.
Exactly- what else is a tie good for?
Go away, Arnie.
Deep thoughts from a roid head.
Is that a Girly Man comment, capital G capital M, or lower case?
Or maybe we could just slap liberal politicians. :)
{snowflake warning} In no way am I advocating actual violence, no matter how mild, against politicians of any portion of the political spectrum, no matter how stupid {/snowflake warning}
>>‘Let’s label another thing that is killing you - which is fossil fuels,’
The stupid is strong with this one.
Cheap, portable, storable energy is life.
Arnold’s political career: “Terminated!”
Arnold’s political career: “Terminated!”
I don’t even read those lawyer gravity warnings on ladders why the hell would I want to read a “warning label” on a gas pump? Just say NO to drugs.
Scheisskopf Aaaanold.
Must have been another life, when Mr. Universe was selling us Humvees.
Let’s export our fossil fuels and stop supplying states that don’t want them. Let citizens in these states show us what life without fossil fuels looks like. Keep in mind that electric cars are charged by electricity produced by fossil fuels.
How can people like this not realize how stupid they look when they propose this crap?
Ahhnoid needs to have a warning label tattooed on his forehead:
“Giant Void Ahead”
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