Schwarzenegger urges provinces to march ‘like a Terminator’ on the environment

Today, the former governor of California pushed that message even more, saying that the world has to unite in tackling climate change – and not point fingers.

During the event, Arnold spoke at the leading political science institute, where he provided a blueprint of his initiative to offer help to people battle climate change.

When asked whether aspiring body-builders could achieve a body like The Terminator on a vegetarian diet, he told BBC that many successful body builders were vegetarian. However, emissions linked to the human consumption of meat are increasingly causing serious concern. “It’s an important issue – 28% of greenhouse gasses come from eating meat and raising cattle and all those things”, he said, citing his friend, film direct James Cameron’s advice to stop eating meat.

He was challenged about his meat eating and if it was possible to be as big as he has been as a vegetarian.

What matters to him, Schwarzenegger says, is that we do something quickly about the obvious effects of fossil fuels. There are always a few of you, asking why we should care about the temperature rising, or questioning the science of climate change.

To produce 1 kg of protein from meat is estimated to use up the resources required to produce from 3 to 10 kg of vegetable protein.

Most of the greenhouse gas emissions from livestock farming comes from animals belching, nitrogen fertilisers, and gas (to a lesser extent) coming out of the animals’ rear end.

Besides playing the dominant killing machine, Schwarzenegger was also the governor of California for a period of time.

He said his successor, the Democrat Jerry Brown, had increased his level of ambition – and the next governor would want to trump that. Arnold also suggested that instead of urging people to go vegan, it would be better if they were encouraged to give up meet, at least, one or more days in a week. We need technology that allows us to live the way we want, but without polluting our planet.

Arnold expressed his views at the “Five Year Vision” launch, a move that hopes to align local actions and commitments around collective ambitions by 2020, thereby making rapid urbanization and regional dynamics an opportunity for massive change with environmental, health and economic benefits.

Schwarzenegger, a Republican who has supported efforts to mitigate climate change and global warming, is taking a different tack in his approach to campaigning against fossil fuels this time.