To: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ask Arnold Schwarzenegger to terminate his ties to deforestation
Dear Mr. Schwarzenegger –
Years of Living Dangerously is the first broadcast TV show to address the climate crisis -- and it’s a great show. In the context of the climate crisis, it is thrilling to see Harrison Ford confront the authorities about the massive deforestation driven by palm oil in Indonesia, and thrilling to see you fighting forest fires with a crack team in Idaho.
But I’m concerned that as one of the show’s star producers, you yourself have investments linked to companies that are burning down the rainforests of Indonesia. Dimensional Fund Advisors, with whom you have close ties, has close to a billion dollars tied up in some of most destructive companies on the planet. Your roles with DFA and with Years of Living Dangerously give you a huge opportunity to flex your financial muscle to save tropical forests.
In the words of Zenzi Suhadi , a forest defender with Walhi/Friends of the Earth Indonesia, “You must not play a terminator in real life.” Please urge DFA to break ties with any company destroying the rainforests that you have passionately been trying to save. A progressive move from DFA to stem the tide of deforestation could be one of the brightest outcomes of Years of Living Dangerously. Please don’t let it pass by.
Years of Living Dangerously is the first broadcast TV show to address the climate crisis -- and it’s a great show. In the context of the climate crisis, it is thrilling to see Harrison Ford confront the authorities about the massive deforestation driven by palm oil in Indonesia, and thrilling to see you fighting forest fires with a crack team in Idaho.
But I’m concerned that as one of the show’s star producers, you yourself have investments linked to companies that are burning down the rainforests of Indonesia. Dimensional Fund Advisors, with whom you have close ties, has close to a billion dollars tied up in some of most destructive companies on the planet. Your roles with DFA and with Years of Living Dangerously give you a huge opportunity to flex your financial muscle to save tropical forests.
In the words of Zenzi Suhadi , a forest defender with Walhi/Friends of the Earth Indonesia, “You must not play a terminator in real life.” Please urge DFA to break ties with any company destroying the rainforests that you have passionately been trying to save. A progressive move from DFA to stem the tide of deforestation could be one of the brightest outcomes of Years of Living Dangerously. Please don’t let it pass by.
Why is this important?
We applaud the producers of Years of Living Dangerously for tackling the climate crisis head-on, and we hope the show gets the massive viewership it deserves. But it turns out that Arnold Schwarzenegger, a producer and star of the show, is part-owner and a major client of Dimensional Fund Advisors, a money manager with nearly a billion dollars in logging and palm oil companies -- the very same ones that are burning and bulldozing the orangutan-populated forests of Southeast Asia.
Take action to tell Schwarzenegger to terminate his ties with deforestation.
Take action to tell Schwarzenegger to terminate his ties with deforestation.