How Arnold Schwarzenegger went from action hero to climate hero

Brut America

The action hero turned climate hero.   He founded the Austrian World Summit five years ago. Here's how Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to fix the environment.

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00:00Of course the weather environmentalists right away say well wait a minute the guy that made the hammer the most successful kind of a car

00:07Is the one that is gonna fix the environment? Are you kidding me?

00:23Of course all my hammers have been made environmentally friendly that is the key thing for me

00:28So my effect is vegetable all that is in there when you turn on the engine

00:32Immediately it starts smelling like french fries. I love it

00:49Of course it was a skepticism, but they did not know that I turned for instance this hammer into vegetable fuel

00:55I mean biofuel think about that another hammer into

01:00Hydrogen a powered hammer and another hammer of mine is electric hammer. So there you have it

01:06Action is louder than the words. This is it

01:08I

01:24Not only wanted to create action for the state of California and for the whole country but also at my own home

01:30So this is why I decided to have solar panels to just create on this hill here all the solar panels

01:36This was also the idea of the beginning of the million solar roofs

01:52Let us place the way for the u.s. And for China and for the rest of the world

01:58Our cars have been running on dirty fuel for too long

02:06you

02:16My love for the environment started right here in Austria

02:21It started in the hills around grass in a little village called tower

02:26Nature was my playground

02:37I

02:39This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced and

02:43As long as you the leaders act like everything is fine, and you have things under control

02:51Then as people we won't understand that we are in an emergency

02:54Emergency

03:04And the more often we talk about that subject the more often we bring people together

03:09The more often we go and stress the fact that we have to do something to lower pollution to reduce

03:14Pollution to save the world the better it is and that's what the Austrian conference is all about

03:25But the Austrian world summit is all about healthy planet healthy people

03:49Let's all say we'll be back

03:54You

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