“Right here is its director of Mobility Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking to you”, with this announcement, the “Terminator” star and former governor of California stunned on Tuesday the general public transport customers of Vienna upon receiving them as “heroes of local weather motion.”
The Austrian Hollywood star is within the metropolis for an annual convention that organizes local weather change.
“Thanks on your dedication to a wholesome planet,” he says in German within the announcement, transmitted each 30 minutes by the intercom system of all public transport, in accordance with the Wiener Linien community operator.
It continues in English that “you might be all actual heroes of climatic motion, serving to to affix in motion and end air pollution.”
Schwarzenegger, 77, launched the summit in his native Austria eight years in the past to focus on the challenges of local weather change.
In his opening speech on Tuesday, Schwarzenegger, who has been an open critic of US President Donald Trump, stopped criticism, whereas asking for “motion that makes their lives (of individuals) higher.”
“I do know that individuals are sick and uninterested in complaints and complaints and pessimism. They need heroes … we’ve to win individuals,” he mentioned.
This 12 months, the previous British prime minister Tony Blair attends, in addition to the Austrian Prime Minister Christian Stocker and Austrian President Alexander Van Der Bellen.
Round 2.four million individuals use public transport from the town per day, in accordance with Wiener Linien. The Austrian capital has about two million inhabitants.
Supply: BSS/AFP