ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, THE
FORMER GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA IS
BACK IN THE NEWS AND RECENTLY HE
GAVE AN INTERVIEW TO POLITICO,
POLITICOS OFF MESSAGE PODCAST TO
BE SPECIFIC AND HE SAID SOME
PRETTY FASCINATING THINGS ABOUT
THE ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND
THESE BIG OIL COMPANIES THAT
HAVE BEEN GETTING AWAY WITH
PRETTY BAD BEHAVIOR, AND KEEP IN
MIND, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
STILL IDENTIFIES AS A
REPUBLICAN, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO
BIG OIL COMPANIES, HEWANTS TO
GET TOUGH AND HE ACTUALLY WANTS
TO FILE A LAWSUIT AGAINST
THEM.
HE EXPLAINS THE DETAILS IN THE
NEXT VIDEO.
I THINK IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT
THAT FOR PEOPLE TO REALLY
FOCUS ON THAT ISSUE BECAUSE THIS
IS NO DIFFERENT THEN THE
SMOKING ISSUE.
THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY NEWS NEW
FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND DECADES
THAT SMOKING WOULD HARM PEOPLE,
WOULD KILL PEOPLE, WOULD CREATE
CANCER AND THEY WERE HIDING THAT
FACT FROM THE PEOPLE AND
DENIED IT.
THEN EVENTUALLY THEY WERE TAKEN
TO COURT AND THEY HAD TO
PAY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS BECAUSE OF THAT.
BECAUSE THEY KNEW.
IT IS THE SAME THING AS OIL
COMPANIES.
THE OIL COMPANIES, PEOPLE DON'T
KNOW, BUT THE OIL COMPANIES KNEW
FROM 1959 ON, THEY DID THEIR OWN
STUDY AND KNEW THERE WOULD BE
GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE
CHANGE HAPPENING BECAUSE OF
FOSSIL FUELS.
AND ON TOP OF IT, IT WOULD BE
RISKY FOR PEOPLE'S LIVES,
THAT IT WOULD KILL PEOPLE AND
THEY WOULD GET CANCER AND
ALL OF THIS.
ALL OF THIS STUFF THE OIL
COMPANIES KNEW AND THEY
KEPT HIDING IT FROM THE PEOPLE.
THIS IS WHY WE ARE NOW TALKING
TO LAW FIRMS TO GO INTO EXACTLY
THE SAME THING AS THEY HAD DONE
IN THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY WHERE WE
SUE THE OIL COMPANIES FOR
KNOWINGLY KILLING PEOPLE ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
SO HE USES VERY STRONG
LANGUAGE.
LATER ON HE SAYS THIS:
I LIKE 
THIS OTHER QUOTE, TOO.
HE SAID:
I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE IN
PUBLIC OFFICE TALK THAT WAY.
HE IS OF COURSE NO LONGER
GOVERNOR, BUT THAT IS A
FORMER GOVERNOR OF THE LARGEST
STATE IN THE UNION.
A FORMER REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR
AND HE STILL IDENTIFIES AS
A REPUBLICAN.
I LISTENED TO THE WHOLE PODCAST
BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS
FASCINATING AND PEOPLE ACCUSED
HIM OF BEING REPUBLICAN IN
NAME ONLY.
HE IS LIKE NO, I AM A
REPUBLICAN.
I DO NOT KNOW WHY THIS TURN INTO
A PARTISAN ISSUE, BUT WE SHOULD
BE PROTECTING AMERICANS HEALTH,
THE ENVIRONMENT, AND I DO
NOT AGREE WITH HIM ON A LOT OF
THINGS BUT I REALLY RESPECT HIM
FOR STANDING HIS GROUND ON THIS
ISSUE BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT.
SO WHEN HE WAS GOVERNOR, I
DISAGREED WITH HIM ON
DOZENS OF THINGS, HE IS A
REPUBLICAN AND LIKE MOST
REPUBLICANS, THE THING HE CARED
MOST ABOUT WITH TAX CUTS.
WHY?
BECAUSE HE IS RICH.
BUT HE HAS CREDIBILITY IN THIS
RESPECT FOR TWO REASONS.
ONE, HE IS NOT DOING IT FOR THE
MONEY.
HE IS EXTREMELY WEALTHY SO THEY
CAN'T SAY TO HIM, YOU ARE
JUST DOING TO GET RICH.
AND TWO, HE IS A REPUBLICAN SO
IT IS HARDER TO MAKE THE
CASE THAT IT IS SOME KIND OF
PARTISAN ATTACK ON OIL
COMPANIES, BUT PUTTING THE
POLITICS ASIDE FOR A
SECOND, IT IS BOLD, COURAGEOUS,
AND I APPRECIATE IT.
HE IS RIGHT.
THEY KNEW ALL THE WAY BACK THEN
AND I DID A STORY ABOUT IT
A WHILE BACK WHEN NEW RECORDS
WERE RELEASED FROM
COMPANIES LIKE EXXON MOBIL,
BACK WHEN EXXON, BEFORE THE
MERGER HAD DONE THEIR RESEARCH
AND THEIR RESEARCH CLEARLY
INDICATED, YES, IT WILL CAUSE
CLIMATE CHANGE.
YES IT WILL BE
HARMFUL TO THE PLANET AND
THEY WERE LIKE, YEAH, LET'S NOT
MAKE THAT PUBLIC.
THEY KNEW ALL ALONG, FOR DECADES
AND DECADES AND THEY DENIED AND
DENIED AND THEN THEY PAID
POLITICIANS TO DENY IT FOR THEM.
THAT IS ANOTHER CRIME, A CRIME
AGAINST DEMOCRACY AND THEY TOOK
THOSE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF
PROFITS FROM ALL OF THOSE YEARS,
FROM THOSE DECADES, LOOK, THESE
ARE THE MOST PROFITABLE
COMPANIES IN THE WORLD AND THEY
HAVE BEEN FOR A LONG TIME AND
ALL OF THAT MONEY, THEY ALREADY
TOOK IT HOME, THEY BUILT
MANSIONS AND GOT 30 GODS AND ALL
THAT STUFF.
REX TELUS AND WHO JUST LEFT THE
SECRETARY OF STATE USED TO
BE THE CEO OF EXXON MOBIL, HE
HELD THERE EASILY FOUGHT
AGAINST FRACKING IN HIS BACKYARD
BECAUSE IT WAS NEXT TO HIS
MANSION, EVEN THOUGH EXXON
MOBIL WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST
TRACKERS IN THE COUNTRY.
THEY TOOK ALL OF THE MONEY
ALREADY AND THEY PUT ALL OF
THE COST ON US.
THE ARCTIC WAS 45∞ WARMER THAN
AVERAGE THE OTHER DAY.
YOU LOOK AT EVERY CHARTER IT HAS
TEMPERATURES SOARING, OCEANS
RISING AND SO GUYS LIKE
SCHWARZENEGGER, FOR ALL THE
OTHER THINGS WE DISAGREE WITH
THEM ON WHETHER
WE LIKE IT OR NOT, THAT IS
SCIENCE AND I HAVE CHILDREN AND
GRANDCHILDREN ON THIS PLANET AND
THOSE OCEANS ARE GOING TO
RISE, THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF
IT NOW.
THE SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN IN AN
UNDETERMINED LATER TIME, IT IS
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
CALIFORNIA WAS JUST ON FIRE FOR
AN EXTRAORDINARILY LONG
PERIOD, WAY LONGER THAN FIRE
SEASON NORMALLY GOES ON,
WAY MORE SEVERE, LET ALONE THE
HURRICANES YOU ALSO LAST YEAR.
IT IS REAL, AND THEY TOOK ALL
OF THE MONEY, AT A BARE
MINIMUM SUING THEM TO GET THE
MONEY BACK FOR THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WORLDWIDE IS
THE LEAST WE CAN DO.
