Schwarzenegger and Bill Nye tackle the 'stages' of climate change

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ill Nye teamed up with Arnold Schwarzenegger to confront climate denial head on in an episode of National Geographic’s Explorer, Bill Nye’s Global Meltdown.

Arnold Schwarzenger - head-to-head with
Bill Nye about climate change.

The episode opens with Bill Nye telling his psychiatrist, Arnold Schwarzenegger, “I don’t know, I’m just not myself lately. Everything seems so meaningless and empty.”

“Go on,” says Schwarzenegger. “I know the planet is getting hotter and hotter,” says Nye. “And I know we’re going to have forest fires and droughts and floods like you’ve never seen. We’re going to have storms and hurricanes and species are disappearing.”

Nye, exasperated, concludes, “Sometimes I just want to close my eyes and pretend it’s not happening.” Schwarzenegger’s prognosis: “It sounds to me like you are suffering from climate change grief.” Schwarzenegger tells Nye he is dealing with the first stage of grief: denial.

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