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DiCaprio Rips Big Oil at Davos Confab of Business Leaders
abc news ^ | 1-19-2016 | JAMEY KEATEN, ap

Posted on 01/19/2016 11:53:29 AM PST by Citizen Zed

Fresh off his Golden Globe win, Leonardo DiCaprio drew ooohs, ahhs and smiles from a crowd as he was honored for his work against the climate crisis at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Then he ripped into Big Oil.

The Hollywood star of "The Revenant" traded the North American snows for white Alpine slopes at a ceremony Tuesday where he announced his foundation was donating another $15 million to environmental projects, and pleaded with business leaders and other notables on hand to help battle climate change.

"We simply cannot allow the corporate greed of the coal, oil and gas industries to determine the future of humanity," DiCaprio said to polite applause. "Those entities with a financial interest in preserving this destructive system have denied and even covered up the evidence of our changing climate."

"Enough is enough. You know better. The world knows better. History will place the blame for this devastation squarely at their feet."

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To: TexasCajun

That is his house??? Ugh! With all his money I expected he would live someplace that was attractive.


21 posted on 01/19/2016 12:17:07 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Citizen Zed
Donald Trump vs. Davos Man
22 posted on 01/19/2016 12:20:11 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: TexasCajun

Is that his home? It’s ugly, whoever it belongs to.


23 posted on 01/19/2016 12:23:30 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Lol

He spent 250,000 on private jet hires last summer in just six weeks

You have to wonder his private jet bill a year?

A big footprint in his world


24 posted on 01/19/2016 12:29:00 PM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: Fai Mao

You’re very very wrong

Google it


25 posted on 01/19/2016 12:30:00 PM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: Snickering Hound

Nice picture of his girlfriend though!


26 posted on 01/19/2016 12:38:24 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Citizen Zed

I assume this is how DiCaprio got to the "Davos Confab".

27 posted on 01/19/2016 12:39:20 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: libertylover

My same thought! I was shocked because it looks like concrete blocks. No plants. Too bad it’s not my money ;)


28 posted on 01/19/2016 12:45:12 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

He has been raised from birth to always do what he is told to do and say.When he obeys this, he gets a huge paycheck.


29 posted on 01/19/2016 12:48:42 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Citizen Zed

Bear Man Pig approves this message.


Thats ManBearPig, all one word, with the syllables in that order.

If you want to post settled science, please keep your terminology straight.

:)


30 posted on 01/19/2016 12:49:12 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Leo, Mother Nature doesn’t consider anything under $20 million. Those winter storm warnings and freezes today must be just a joke.


31 posted on 01/19/2016 12:49:31 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Citizen Zed

How did he get to Switzerland? Did he walk and swim? No . . . “big oil” got him there.


32 posted on 01/19/2016 12:52:08 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Citizen Zed

“Celebrities - Is there anything they don’t know?”


33 posted on 01/19/2016 12:52:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: TexasCajun

Oh, look . . . he has a few solar panels on the roof. But I also count 6 cars.


34 posted on 01/19/2016 12:53:29 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: TexasCajun

He does have solar panels on the roof, probably enough to run a toaster or a blender.


35 posted on 01/19/2016 12:54:04 PM PST by anoldafvet (they're not immigrants, they're criminal aliens)
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To: Ditter
Sigh......all this time I thought the sun was in charge, now I find out it’s big oil that is controlling the weather

Don't forget the Milankovitch Effect.

36 posted on 01/19/2016 12:56:38 PM PST by cowboyway (We're not going to be able to vote our way out of this mess.)
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To: Citizen Zed

As well as Man Bear Pig.

Wonder if Lenny ever think fedgov, who confiscates more money from everyone, in ways he probably doesnt’ even know about, a tsunami compared to what oil companies make for a useful product, if they ever register on his radar as greedy or evil. course they do not.

taxes. fees. interest. confiscation of property. eminent domain. asset forfeiture, no crime needed. personal taxes. business taxes. death taxes taxing already taxed money, again. social security ponzi scheme most people alive now did not personally sign up for, but cannot quit and get their money back - legal servitude. paying others who will not work.


37 posted on 01/19/2016 12:59:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: anoldafvet

You can bet his lawn was thick and green during the drought.


38 posted on 01/19/2016 1:00:10 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Citizen Zed

I suppose all his clothes and equipment and transportation was manufactured and provided by only small “green” companies; right?
Shut up and act.


39 posted on 01/19/2016 1:20:06 PM PST by vpintheak (Death before disarmament!)
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To: cowboyway

Thank you, that makes perfect sense!

(Not)


40 posted on 01/19/2016 2:34:49 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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