“We’re all trying the best we can, truly, we really are,” he said.
No, Leo, when you live in this, that is trying:
Until then, shut the hell up!
Posted on 05/19/2007 5:46:16 PM PDT by melt
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Hollywood star and long-time environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has a message for the world: go green now, before it's too late.
As DiCaprio tells it in film documentary "The 11th Hour", launched on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, people are living in the last minutes of the final hour before it may be too late to do anything about global warming.
"Global warming is a reality. It is happening," DiCaprio told reporters gathered for the movie's debut.
Last year "An Inconvenient Truth" explored the same environmental issue by telling of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's long and lonely campaign to educate people and politicians about the environmental issue.
"An Inconvenient Truth" became a global box office hit with about $50 million in worldwide ticket sales -- a huge sum for a non-fiction film -- and it also won an Oscar.
DiCaprio credits the movie for raising popular culture's concern about the issue, and said films often have a greater impact than scientific speeches or research papers because regular people actually watch, listen and learn in cinemas.
"In the last year, people are taking this issue more seriously than they ever have, and it's a direct result of affecting people's emotions in a cinematic format," he said.
David Orr, the chair of environmental studies at U.S. university Oberlin College put it differently: "Sooner or later, it is film, music or poetry that move people. It's a necessary step in forming political discussion."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.scotsman.com ...
No Leo, if you were really doing the best you could, you wouldn't have even have had to fly to France, you could have stayed at home, and simply gave your little speech via satellite.
Rest of the world to DeCaprio:
You’re 32. Ain’t it about time you went through puberty?
I wonder how many private jets were sitting on the tarmac at Cannes while this idiot was pontificating.
“We’re all trying the best we can, truly, we really are,” he said.
No, Leo, when you live in this, that is trying:
Until then, shut the hell up!
Little Leo is no different than any other Hollywood elite.
Buy my product, live as I tell you, but don’t bring up the fact my ‘carbon footprint’ equals a small city each and every day of my elite life.
How much carbon used to fly all these pomposities to Cannes and back?
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