Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: Green Light or Red Light Ahead?

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🗓️ 30 September 2010

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: Green Light or Red Light Ahead? With an election approaching that will decide his successor and the fate of his landmark legislative achievement, California’s climate law known as AB 32, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers a full-throated defense of his legacy. Schwarzenegger’s aim, he says, is to shed a spotlight on “forces willing to sacrifice this country’s environmental future for private gain” by pushing Proposition 23. “Oil companies like Valero and Tesoro and Frontier and Koch Industries are blatantly trying to manipulate the will of the people and the public good,” he says. “They are creating a shell argument that this is about saving jobs. Does anyone really believe that these companies, out of the goodness of their black-oil hearts, are spending millions and millions of dollars to protect jobs?” Asked by Climate One founder Greg Dalton if he welcomes Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman coming down on his side on Prop. 23, Schwarzenegger replies, “Yes, I welcome anyone who comes to our side and helps. I hope she uses some of her billions of dollars that she has and put it into the campaign to fight Prop. 23.” Schwarzenegger repeatedly stresses that California’s future rests on its ability to lead the transition to a clean energy economy, and that doing so would not negatively impact the state’s economy. Since 2005, he says, jobs in the greentech sector have grown ten times faster than the California average and are the single-largest source of new job growth in the state. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on September 27, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy? Climate One at the
0:36.0	Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:41.5	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:48.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture, Climate One founder Greg Dalton, gets to the heart of the matter.
0:56.3	It's our future. It's time to come together.
0:59.7	Welcome to Climate One and the Commonwealth Club in Silicon Valley.
1:03.7	I'm Wendy Schmidt, founder of the 11th Hour Project
1:05.9	and board chair of the new Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.
1:10.5	Four years ago today, California made history when Governor Schwarzenegger signed a bill
1:15.6	mandating a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in our state by 2020.
1:21.6	That was AB 32.
1:23.6	And it signaled to states across the nation and to the world, California's leadership towards the promise of a clean energy economy.
1:31.3	While the effect of increasing levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is well documented, there's a lively debate today about what to do about it and at what cost.
1:41.3	Does reducing carbon pollution stifle economic opportunity for companies
1:47.0	in our state? Or does it in fact create new jobs and new kinds of jobs desperately needed
1:54.0	by our citizens? Is California losing its high-tech edge to other states like Massachusetts and to other countries like China.
2:02.6	And what should our next governor do to regain California's prosperity and leadership
2:08.6	as we rebuild the state's economy in the most forward-looking way?
2:12.6	These are the critical questions for those of us here in Silicon Valley.
2:16.6	And we're delighted to have the state's chief executive with us today to discuss these issues
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