Schwarzenegger Tells ‘Spiritual’ Climate Change Meeting: ‘This Is Bigger Than Any Movie’

As momentum builds for what climate change advocacy groups are billing as the most important U.N. mega-conference on the subject ever, religious leaders, artists and scholars met in the French capital Tuesday to discuss climate change “from a spiritual perspective.”

 

Among those participating in the one-day “Summit of Conscience for the Climate” were former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Irish President Michael Higgins, Catholic Cardinal Peter Turkson of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I.

 

“I’ve starred, of course, in a lot of science-fiction movies as you know, and let me tell you something, climate change is not science-fiction,” Schwarzenegger said in a recorded message for the meeting. “This is a battle in the real world. It is impacting us right now.”

 

Citing statistics on carbon emissions, air pollution, flooding, storms, drought and wildfires, he added, “This is bigger than any movie. This is the challenge of our time.”

 

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