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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Phillip Inman

The key to winning the climate debate isn’t economics: it’s health

A girl looking down at a cardboard sign that says 'No nature, no future'
A girl at the March for the Future protest in Toulouse before the French elections. Current economic measure do not take any account of the environmental costs of growth. Photograph: Alain Pitton/Rex Shutterstock

Arnold Schwarzenegger has the answer to tackling the climate emergency. Don’t hype the economic damage, he says, just say we need to “terminate pollution”.

It may seem odd to pick the former bodybuilder and actor turned Republican politician as someone with the answer to the most important issue of the 21st century. But Schwarzenegger’s focus on pollution as California’s governor, and that of his successor, the Democrat Jerry Brown, means that since 2008, by wide agreement, the Golden State has enjoyed the longest economic expansion in its history, while also cutting emissions.

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