Essay by Eric Worrall
“Stop whining and get to work”
Schwarzenegger tells environmentalists dismayed by Trump to ‘stop whining’ and get to work
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 5:56AM
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He said Tuesday he keeps hearing from environmentalists and policy experts lately who ask, “What is the point of fighting for a clean environment when the government of the United States says climate change is a hoax and coal and oil is the future?”
Schwarzenegger told the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, an event he helps organize, that he responds: “Stop whining and get to work.”
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“Be the mayor that makes buses electric; be the CEO who ends fossil fuel dependence; be the school that puts (up) solar roofs,” he said.
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Read more: https://abc7news.com/post/schwarzenegger-tells-environmentalists-dismayed-trump-stop-whining-get-work/16644134/
Personally I’d rather the mayor who maintains public safety and clean streets, the CEO who invests in product improvement and the school which strives to provide a the best possible education. But maybe that’s just me.
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He’s back like a bad penny.
Or a bad pfennig.
That, too. 🙂
Sadly the pfennig is German and he is Austrian which would be groschen.
Scheiss!
All those muscle-building anabolic steroids eventually turn up as bone-head building, apparently.
He’s back like a bad
pennyfart.Me Too
It sure puts the responsibility on the people that make the decision.
The responsibility belongs in the hands of the hypocrites who make use of the FF products while decrying their evilness.
If, like they tend to claim, the majority of people (>50%) believe
Climate Change is happening…
It’s caused by FF usage…
It’s dangerous…
Man (aka they are) is the cause…
All THEY need to do is …
Trade in their ICVs for new EVs (without Government mandate or assistance)
Add Solar Panels to their own rooftops (without Government mandate or assistance)
Add Powerwall Batteries to their home (without Government mandate or assistance)
Replace all Gas heating and appliances with all electric versions (without Government mandate or assistance)
Avoid using ALL the more than 6000 products created with Petrochemicals
Sever from the grid (powered by FF generated electricity)
All without government mandate or assistance!
If there were a sudden drop in demand of 50% for FF energy, gas and oil Prices who Drop to the point of becoming uneconomic to drill any new wells.
Though I strongly doubt that 10% of the people are willing let alone 50%
I have a little respect for the climatistas who give up all ff- as much as possible anyway since it’s impossible to give up 100% unless you live in a mud hut and eat only acorns. The rest, as you noted, are f****** hypocrites.
“Personally I’d rather the mayor who maintains public safety and clean streets, the CEO who invests in product improvement and the school which strives to provide a the best possible education. But maybe that’s just me.”
Me too.
Arnold Schwarzenegger??? Gee, I thought he was put out to pasture long, long ago.
It’s quite funny that he’s trying to stay relevant in politics, and that he dares to judge anything as a “hoax”.
After all, during his tenure as California’s governor, Schwarzenegger strongly supported the California High-Speed Rail project, also known as the “bullet train”. He championed Proposition 1A in 2008, which authorized $9 billion in bonds for the project. Initially projected to cost $33 billion and be completed by 2020, the project currently has a projected cost of $106 billion for the just the Initial Operating Segment (IOS), which is just 171 miles long, connecting the towns of Merced and Bakersfield
The full “High Speed” (hah!) Rail system, encompassing the entire San Francisco to Los Angeles route, is presently estimated to cost as much as $128 billion with no completion data being cited.
That thing was a joke right from the start. I remember doing some calculation showing it would have to have a full 1000-passenger train leaving every 5 minutes to match the projected ridership, and wondering if those clowns had any idea how slow trains are at slowing down in an emergency.
Then when the estimates went higher and higher, some damn judge, maybe the CA Supreme Court, said it didn’t matter than the ballot proposition had promised 2:40 trip times, the project could deviate however it wanted.
The Trump administration said today they were thinking very hard about cutting off the $4 billion the federal government was going to pay for this high-speed rail project.
I can’t see what the need is in the first place. What’s wrong with flying? Faster and clearly cheaper.
That’s about $620 million per mile, $117,000 per foot, $385,000 per meter!
Good Lord!!!!!
Thanks, I was going to ask what he did for California while he was the mayor:)
On a bright note he was recently offered a new roll in a movie about a Deaf 16th century German Composer. When asked about the roll he said
“I’ll be Bach”
Spelling:
Role, not roll.
Autocorrect/Autoreplace strikes again😳
Pedantist 😆
OUCH!
(Or should that be “AUCH”?)
Don’t forget San Diego and Sacramento.
I didn’t forget. Both towns were never baselined, only offered as “Phase 2” extensions.
My estimated cost: oh, another $300 billion or so . . . cheap when you’re spending OPM (other people’s money)! And expected completion date? . . . 2080, or later.
But wait! . . . if we just connect the baselined future HSR system to existing low-speed railroads going to both San Diego and Sacramento . . . yeah, that’s the ticket!
ROTFL.
“California High-Speed Rail project, also known as the “bullet train””
The train that shot the taxpayers in the foot.
The (mostly Democrat Party) voters in California were sold, and willingly bought into, the pie-in-the-sky proposition fronted by “interested parties” that high-speed rail was a feasible and “affordable” thing for California.
“Disregard the naysayers, trust us”, they were told. The voters shot themselves in the foot . . . don’t blame an inanimate train, especially one that only exits on paper.
Arnold was such a disappointment. Getting rid of Gray Davis was useless, as Schwarzenegger went even more Green than Davis.
We have enough eco terrorists, Tesla terrorists, campus terrorists, illegal alien assassins, CEO assassins as it is. Telling eco warriors to get to work could mean more pipeline bombers, golf course rifle marksman, and fertility clinic bombers. It’s a crowded field of leftist influencers these days.
When you want to “be that person that takes climate action” as Schwarzenegger suggests, it is also worthwhile to see what “being that person” accomplishes.
Since 40 years of “taking action” has resulted in NOTHING RETURNED” as measured by Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory, should we whine about that instead?
If I made a long list of people that “environmentalists and policy experts” might ask for advice – – Schwarzenegger would not be on it.
Not convinced he would be on a list for acting advice either.
As governor he flew to work – a lot
Arnold Schwarzenegger now spends more than three hours commuting because he lives so far from the office.
But his ride is a private jet.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-07-me-arnold7-story.html
And now he pontificates.
It’s not just you.
(Story Tip)
Looks like there might be a shortage of Chinese EV’s as the Morning Midas car carrier ship caught fire and sank near Alaska. Crew saved by US Coast Guard but 3,000 vehicles lost with EV’s being blamed for the fire.
How many (shiploads of cars lost due EV fires) is that now. Three (I think)?
Oxidant and oxidizer in the same container with possible nearby electrical shorts is a safety issue. At least with a gasoline fire you have a chance of smothering the oxygen supply with standard fire-fighting tech like a wet blanket….
Once Ahh-nold embraced the Eco-Nazi agenda, he lost my respect.
There was a time that I might have felt bummed that he couldn’t run for POTUS (not American born); now I’m ecstatic that he can’t.
Be the washed-up actor who pontificates on climate, a subject he knows nothing about.
Actor is overstating his talent in that field too.
Most actors take up some kind of “save-something-or-other” cause to hide their normally shallow “it’s-all-about-me” narcissistic tendencies from the public. Plus, it’s cheap press and you get the odd paid speaking gig. Their agents push it for the 10% cut.
Stop driving the gas guzzling Hummer you bummer hypocrite!
His Hummer did not guzzle gas, it was power by hydrogen.
Diesel.
All ICEs are powered by hydrogen !! … with an amount of carbon added for stabilisation.
Clue is in the name – ‘Hydrocarbon’
The average chemical formula for common diesel fuel is C12H23,
Gasoline (North American English) or Petrol (English English) is C8H18
Clue: All ICEs are powered by oxygen!!
Without an oxidizer (in the case of ICE’s, atmospheric oxygen) combustion of both hydrogen and carbon cannot occur.
Pedant (:-))
Some might instead say “scientifically accurate”.
Ah-null got one of the maids pregnant while he was Guv of Callyfornia and married to one of the Kennedy’s.
Arnold should have stuck with acting … oops he was / is a terrible actor. Or run for governor of California… oops he was a terrible governor too.
We should all be focused on things that work. Wind, solar, storage and electric vehicles don’t work. Stop wasting our money on them. Fossil fuel, nuclear and internal combustion engines do work. Spend our money on them. The idea of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is a function of climate models and nothing else. Get back in the real world and we will all be better off.
Remember that great speech he gave back in the ’80s about why he left Progressive Austria for America? Guess that perspective diminishes once you have a lot of money.
Also, clearly hanging out with Kennedys causes brain damage.
As an Austrian I’m always enchanted, when a multi-millionaire with the ecological footprint of more than ten average Austrian families comes flying in with his private jet and gives lectures about climate protection.
All what comes into my mind is to tell him the Austrian dialect version of “f… off” -> “Schleich di!” (that’s even the polite version, the rude one would be: “Geh scheißen!”)
I hear that the result of the last time Arnold “got to work” is now into bodybuilding.
Schwartshenegger:
“If you are the with the power to spend other peoples money on something they don’t really want or need … be that guy. Spend the money.”
He is calling for activists to become…activists who actually produce something. I answer this with my two favorite quotes, which together compactly summarize Leftist politics:
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” Thomas Sowell
“In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” David Horowitz
Together, these two observations explain why Arnold’s advice can never produce results.