Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, said on the side lines of the COP21 summit that there has been a failure to communicate the danger posed by climate change, resulting in the layman not fully understand the crisis that the world currently faces.
"I think it is sad the way, you know, the miscommunication about climate change, because so many times, you know, you hear ... that the oceans will rise, and the sea levels are rising and the temperature's rising and the icebergs' melting, and it's all stuff that people cannot even relate to. I mean, our brain is not wired that way, that we're worried about things that are happening in 2050, or 50 years from now. It's wired about what's happening today, and no one - even the top environmental officials - really communicates this the right way," Schwarzenegger said, according to the Inquisitr.
The Hollywood icon added that the message needs to be simple and uplifting in order for the general public to be able to join the fight against climate change. He said the average person needs to know that "if we don't go in the right direction it goes south and we're going to have the consequences of all these people dying. And I think we can do better than that," reported The Sacramento Bee.
"This is the challenge of our time and this is the real world. This is not the movie world which is the other world that I come from. There are no visual effects here, no special effects, there is no script writing that we can change for a better ending -- nothing like that," Schwarzenegger said, urging decision-makers to move towards clean energy sources, reported AFP.
Schwarzenegger also took time to lay out a wreath at the Bataclan concert venue, where 90 people were killed during the Nov. 13 terrorist attack that saw 130 people killed and hundreds more injured across Paris. "Paris, je t'aime (I love you) and I pray for you," read the card on the wreath signed "Arnold," according to Newsmax.
