Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart – UN Messenger of Peace for Climate Change Leonardo DiCaprio is finally taking his responsibility to set a personal example seriously, with news that he plans to flight share his private jet with other passionately green A-list celebrities.
What planet are you on, Leo? DiCaprio flies his LA friends 6,000 miles around the world so they can listen to his speech on GLOBAL WARMING
When Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio hosts a reception for a string of A-list stars, supermodels and wealthy philanthropists later this month, he will make an impassioned plea for more action to be taken on global warming.
But instead of holding the event in Los Angeles, where most of his guests are based, they will fly halfway around the world to the glitzy French resort of St Tropez – at enormous cost to the environment.
Last night, green campaigners were quick to criticise 41-year-old DiCaprio, who in February used his Best Actor acceptance speech at the Oscars to warn about the dangers posed by climate change.
The reception – the grand-sounding Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Annual Gala To Fund Climate and Biodiversity Projects – will be held on July 20 at the Bertaud Belieu Vineyards on the French Riviera.
Celebrities including Kate Hudson, Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin Spacey are all expected to attend, along with a host of international rock and pop stars, supermodels and tycoons.
And while a table seating 12 people at the gala costs up to £125,000, the real price will be paid by the environment.
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The Daily Mail claims some greens have criticised DiCaprio’s extravagant long haul global warming gala, but I think they are being unduly harsh. After all, as far as I know DiCaprio normally doesn’t share his jet with lots of other celebrities.
Imagine the carbon footprint if all those green A-listers flew their own private jets.
By flight sharing on DiCaprio’s jet, those A-listers might still be collectively clocking up the same carbon footprint as a small city, but the saving over what could have been represents a win for nature. We should all recognise and applaud the heartfelt sincerity of DiCaprio’s baby steps towards setting a green example we can all aspire to.
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Isn’t his “Oscar winning” movie just a remake of “Man in the Wilderness” staring Richard Harris. That was a pretty good flick as I recall probably all the studio really needed to do is remaster it and release it again instead of changing the story line and star.
Leo is a product of his own imagination.
He made a film about that I am sure.
I am sure!
Kate Hudson, Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin Spacey
Nice list to boycott.
I have been so inspired by Di Caprio’s selfless action that I have decided to stop flying on scheduled airlines. I am now the proud owner of a private jet which I will gladly share with one or two friends. Thank you Mr Di Caprio for showing me the light – Hallelujah
Yawn.
Another story documenting the fact that liberals are hypocrites.
Shocking.
Shocking I tell you.
Does DiCaprio own a jet? Since Sony’s paying for his travel, he may be flying in Sony’s 3-engine Falcon 900EX that seats up to 12 (at least one of whom would manage the gourmet galley).
https://youtu.be/nNOvLLciqtk
I’d think that all those egos would require an A380 to accomodate the sum of arrogance involved
Jawohl Wilhelm!
I wonder if the mileage is going to be calculated for each guest on Count of Affluence Leonardo DiCaprio’s private jet flight (to the Global Warming investment opportunity at St Tropez) and multiplied by the per mile operational costs of said jet, and then presented to the IRS as a tax write-off.
I’m sort of serious here. It’d be interesting to know. I’ll bet it is written off. Look at his face: it’s as if beauty boy’s looking down on us. After all, us rubes can’t write off our charitable flights to French vineyards.
I said something along these lines on another thread.
Someone who says “Do as I say and not as I do may not be a hypocrite.
Is a smoker (of any age) telling someone else not to start smoking a hypocrite?
No.
They’d be a hypocrite if they pretended or fooled themselves into thinking that they weren’t smokers themselves.
Interesting that the origin in the Greek of the word “hypocrite” comes from the mask the actors would hold up so the audience would know what emotion they were portraying. (You might still see that symbol at the beginning of some old movies.)
Many of these A-Listers are or were actors.
Many hypocrites never were actors but won an Oscar anyway.
I should add that acting is a profession. Not all actors or actress’s that appear on a screen are “hypocrites”.
They are just working at their job. They might become a hypocrite if they testify before Congress as an expert on farming because they played the wife of a farmer in a movie….even if they did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.8-)
Leonardo should share a flight with Piccard in the Solar Impulse 2. There’s enough room for one passenger and it only takes 3 days and 2 hours to cross the Atlantic. This is the future of aviation according to true greens. Of course Leonardo is a fake green
http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/04/Solar-Impulse-Hawaii.jpg
My bad. It’s just an hour short of 3 days. C’mon it ain’t so bad 🙂
Hmm, slumming it for three days on Solar Impulse 2 or living it up on a trans-Atlantic liner?
That’s a tough one. I’ll go for the fossil-fuelled liner.
Reminds me of that St. Tropez tune from Floyd.
Is it how the elite finally give in/enshrine a pogrom, relegate it to a movie star foundation?
DiCaprio flies his LA friends 6,000 miles around the world so they can listen to his speech on global warming? Yeah right. It’s a good job they’re hopelessly wrong about CO2, it might appear rather elitist otherwise.
You mean taking a bunch and inviting more celebrities to a Summer bash in St. Tropez at a French vineyard isn’t elitist enough, in an of itself?
Leo wants to party in the south of France? I don’t care. Is he a hypocrite? Yeah, but I don’t care.
What triggers my gag reflex is what Tom Judd brought up earlier. I wouldn’t bet against this whole shebang being a tax write off.
All fact checkers are to go to the back of the bus and use separate water fountains.
ὑποκριτής • (hupokritḗs) m (genitive ὑποκριτοῦ); first declension ypokrites upokriths upokrites may be Romanised forms of Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής.
1 one who answers: interpreter, expounder
2 actor, player
3 hypocrite, pretender, one who feigns
From ὑποκρίνομαι “I play a part on stage”, from ὑπό “below” + κρίνω “I choose”