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The Governator speaks! Actually makes a reasonable argument about mobilizing the average person into environmentalism.
"For too long the environmental movement has been powered by guilt," Schwarzenegger said in a keynote speech Wednesday at a global warming conference at Georgetown University.
"You know the kind of guilt I'm talking about: Smokestacks belching pollution and powering our Jacuzzis and our big-screen TVs and, in my case, powering my private airplanes. It's too bad for us that we can't live the lives of Buddhist monks in Tibet, but you know something, it doesn't happen."
He added, "I don't think any movement has ever made much progress based on guilt. Guilt is passive, guilt is inhibiting and guilt is defensive. ... Successful movements are built on passion, they're not built on guilt. They are built on passion, they are built on confidence and they are built on critical mass." ...
"We don't have to go and take away the muscle cars. We don't have to take away Hummers or SUVs or anything like this, because that's a formula for failure," he said. "Instead we have to make those cars more environmentally muscular."
He's right on many fronts as well, I think. People don't want to give up their favourite luxuries. They feel resentful if they are morally bullied into doing it. We've got to figure out a way to continue to provide them in a cleaner way. I think it's possible. It's amazing what a motivated entrepreneur can do, and green shit is all the rage these days.
The Governator speaks! Actually makes a reasonable argument about mobilizing the average person into environmentalism.
"For too long the environmental movement has been powered by guilt," Schwarzenegger said in a keynote speech Wednesday at a global warming conference at Georgetown University.
"You know the kind of guilt I'm talking about: Smokestacks belching pollution and powering our Jacuzzis and our big-screen TVs and, in my case, powering my private airplanes. It's too bad for us that we can't live the lives of Buddhist monks in Tibet, but you know something, it doesn't happen."
He added, "I don't think any movement has ever made much progress based on guilt. Guilt is passive, guilt is inhibiting and guilt is defensive. ... Successful movements are built on passion, they're not built on guilt. They are built on passion, they are built on confidence and they are built on critical mass." ...
"We don't have to go and take away the muscle cars. We don't have to take away Hummers or SUVs or anything like this, because that's a formula for failure," he said. "Instead we have to make those cars more environmentally muscular."
He's right on many fronts as well, I think. People don't want to give up their favourite luxuries. They feel resentful if they are morally bullied into doing it. We've got to figure out a way to continue to provide them in a cleaner way. I think it's possible. It's amazing what a motivated entrepreneur can do, and green shit is all the rage these days.