joining us now to talk about how
republicans can lead on the environment
with positive practical solutions arnold
schwarzenegger
great to see you um look i've always
said republicans conservatives they love
the environment they love nature
what they hate is this ideology of
climate change they hate the negativity
being
bossed around and told what to do that's
what i loved about that speech you were
positive well yes first of all uh
steve it's nice to be on your show and
uh
please thank you and we had a fantastic
conference
in austria in vienna our environmental
conference was probably one of the most
successful conferences
you know we have ever had and to be very
happy about that
there are different voices some of them
are alarmists and some of them you know
um kind of positive thinkers and and uh
believers like i am
it is always very optimistic but you
know i respect the environmental
movement i respect the environment this
the hard-working
individuals and they're really after
heart in there you notice
i just feel like that after 40 years
of preaching the same thing it is
important to take a different approach
because i feel like as i said in my
speech the alarm is
kind of a attitude and atmosphere
and trying to scare people all the time
has not worked over decades
and so therefore let's try a different
approach let's go and use a more
positive approach number one and number
two
let's throw at people all these
different kind of
things about the coral reefs are dying
and about the oceans are rising north
all of these things are true may i
remind you steve everything that i said
was absolutely true but you cannot say
that minister
that many things at the people because
they get confused they don't know
that there's many people problems or is
it just one problem i say
let's keep it streamlined let's talk
about pollution because we all can get
together
democrats and republicans can get
together
on one thing and this is let's terminate
pollution
that is what my idea is we should talk
simple to the people
we should let them know that there is
hope we should let them give
give them guidelines on what to do which
environmentalists many times in their
speeches are not doing
they're talking to each other and they
have all this fancy language and stuff
that no one understands and my point is
let's talk to the people
in a way that they understand it and
let's make sure that they're part
of the movement because steve if the
people are part of the movement
and they want to change then they put
the pressure on the politicians
and then the politicians will be much
more inclined to go and vote in that
direction
but right now politicians feel sometimes
scared when they're from conservative
areas
to go there and do both uh
pro-environment and pro-environmental
issues
i think that's exactly right and some of
the some of the reasons i think
that they they they look at some of the
the
ideas that are being put forward and the
conservative politicians republicans say
i can't sell this to my voters because
they're not going to like it
it's good they're going to be worried
it's going to cost me more i'm not going
to be able to do the things i want to do
you mentioned eating meat
i'm they're going to tell me i can't
cook with gas in my house anymore my
restaurant if i run a restaurant
all these specific things that they feel
it's going to be painful
and they don't want to do it and i think
that's another reason
that peop the politicians run away
from the issue as actually it doesn't
have to be like that that's what you
were saying
right well first of all let me just say
when you say that there will be
this would be painful uh when i walk
into gord's gym
one of the first things that comes up
with the speaker always is
there will be pain and the reasons
if there's no pain there's no gain okay
so this is one thing you learn in sports
very quickly
and the reality of it is is one imagines
that there's more pain there really is
because like you said it's expensive
that some of the politicians say
it's too expensive it's not expensive i
mean like in california for instance we
have
passed the strictest environmental laws
anywhere in the nation
it was in 2006 2007 and then we
implemented those things and
everyone was scared that it is going to
cost us too much money and
that jobs will be leaving the state
businesses will be leaving the state
and our revenues were shrinking all of
those kind of things well like
let's travel time time travel forward
now today
our economy is booming i mean we have
the fastest growing economy in the
united states
we have an average of a gpd growth of
four percent
more than four percent so this is the
second highest in the world
in the world think about that and we
have the most extraordinary economy or
maybe the fifth largest economy in the
world
only after the united states japan china
and germany
so think about that this is a state that
has the strictest environmental laws at
the same time
and so we have proven that you can
protect the environment
and the economy at the same time and the
other thing that i have to tell you is
i just read just it was just literally
two days ago someone sent me
a note and said you know governor you
will be very very happy to see those
numbers
we have a 35 increase in green
technology jobs over the last
year i mean this is the highest increase
anywhere in the world
think about this so this is the kind of
things that republicans should pick
up on and they should study that what we
have done
forget the green new deal or the stuff
that they're talking about
i mean i understand that they mean well
but they mean the fact of the matter is
all you have to do is just copy what we
have done in california
and we have now already always went from
19
to 50 percent imagine if the united
states does something like that our
renewables are
at like 12 i mean this is pitiful we can
go to 30
in no time if we pass the right loss and
i'm so happy that now the
republicans are coming forward and
they're saying we want to be part of the
election
and because that's what i did when i was
governor i didn't like the idea that the
democrats kept saying
this is our issue i said what do you
mean is this a huge issue
this is a people's issue this is not
your issue and i grabbed half a feet
away from them and i said here's the
partnership
that we're gonna do you're going to pass
the laws we're going to negotiate
together you pass the laws and i will
sign them
that's our partnership and that's how we
move forward and i was so delighted with
the way the democrats worked together
with us
because i went to them and said this is
also my interest i want to clean the
environment
i want to reduce greenhouse gases and so
on so i think that republicans have here
a great great way of getting in the end
of the action
grab some of it from the democrats come
up with great ideas better ideas than
they have
that involves businesses includes
businesses and the decision-making and
all this
so i see great hope and uh you know any
time they need me for any help
or to make any suggestion i'm always
will be there for them because there's
nothing that would make me happier
than for democrats and republicans to
sit down on the table
and to kind of work together to reduce
our pollution because
even one of the most conservative
senators that i met up with in vienna
he happened to be there coincidentally
said to me he says just remember
governor
everyone hates pollution no one likes
pollution so
i said to mrs let's get together and
let's terminate it
once and for all let's do it well i
totally agree with that the republicans
can't leave it to the democrats um just
one quick last point i mean you
mentioned california i've often said in
matt
california imagine how great we would be
doing without some of the
other policies that democrats have put
in that aren't so
positive we've obviously got a recall
election coming up you were
the great victor last time around do you
see anyone
out there who's the next arnold in this
process
well as i said to you the last time when
we talked you know this is easily
winnable
but the only thing is then it's up to
the candidates
there's several candidates out there
that are very good i myself don't get
involved in a recall election because i
think that
what is important to me is that we all
work together and move forward
together and create a better business
environment in california because our
business environment in california
sucks and the reality of it is that
businesses that are leaving the state
because of that i think we can do better
than that i think we got to get rid of
the homeless issue which is a real
crisis in california
that has not been addressed fully yet
and then we have a crisis with the
because the fires that we have here the
drought that is coming up that the
oh they'll be about to enter in all
those things so we have
as i brag about california how well
we're doing in protecting the
environment and protecting businesses
by having created this atmosphere really
moving those two together
and being successful at the same time i
have criticism that california is really
lacking
and and so many different things and we
have to be better prepared for fires and
for earthquakes and all of these kind of
things and
really create again a good positive
business environment in this state
which i think the businesses deserve
well we got one of the candidates later
on uh
tonight on the show i don't know we'll
see what happens we'll be following
arnold it's so great to see you as
always
always great to see you remember here's
the jacket
yeah exactly i'll get it soon
i hope that you have the american flag
inside your jacket i wasn't
freaking out i wrapped myself in the
flag
on july the 4th just like you said more
than that you gotta have it inside close
to your heart
okay do it i will next time i come on
your program i will challenge you again
on that
you're on you're shocked i'll see you
then thank you honest
thank you my friend thank you hey sean
hannity here hey
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