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Net zero is “bogus”, Arnold Schwarzenegger has said.
The actor and former governor of California criticised people who use the term, saying he prefers to act and “terminate pollution” rather than get tied up in “stupid dialogue” that few people understand.
Schwarzenegger, 77, was once nicknamed the Governator, after his most famous role in The Terminator, but later became known as the Green Governor for his environmental policies during his eight years in office between 2003 and 2011.
He told the Sunday Times: “It’s a bull—t f—ing name.”
Instead, he prefers to call on people to “terminate pollution” because “everyone knows what that means”.
He has held a climate conference in Vienna annually since 2017, where efforts are focused on “concentrating on communication rather than signing agreements that don’t mean anything”.
On net zero, he said: “This is a bull—- thing too.
“Go to a town like Leeds or Manchester and ask people, what’s net zero? They don’t know what the f— that means.”
‘Cut pollution by 25pc’
Regarding the debate over net zero targets, he continued: “It’s all bogus.
“Because that’s not the argument. The argument is, how do we go and terminate pollution? It’s not fighting about net zero or, oh, how many percentage points have you rolled it back from the 1990 level.
