A rainforest charity calls on the star to either denounce his connection to individuals involved in a Malaysian corruption scandal and return laundered money he allegedly received or give up his role.
In perhaps the biggest attack on Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental credibility, a rainforest charity on Friday called on the actor to give up his title as UN Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change.
At a press conference in London, the Bruno Manser Funds offered DiCaprio an ultimatum: either he renounce his connections to the “politically exposed persons” at the center of the multi-billion dollar 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal now being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department and return corrupt money he allegedly received or resign from the position he was given by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in 2014.
“If DiCaprio is unwilling to come clean, we ask him to step down as UN Messenger for Peace for climate change, because he simply lacks the credibility for such an important role,” said Lukas Straumann, director of the Switzerland-based charity, which has a particular focus on deforestation in Malaysia.
Full story here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leonardo-dicaprio-urged-step-down-938314 (h/t to Joe D’Aleo)
Maybe somebody could also get him to stop lecturing us about the evils of CO2 production while flying private jets all over the world.
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…Ooh ! That is going to leave a mark !!
Poor Lucas better not enter the Debate Arena though
He would always put up a Strau-mann arguement
If every Green “messenger” were forced to “come clean” or resign, we would not have any green messengers.
Exactly!! But only “Green Creds” are qualified to make the call.
So just what were Lenny’s credentials that got him United Nighted ??
I saw his movie; was it “the aviator” or something like that ??
Supposed to be about Howard Hughes who was his own kind of nut job, but then somebody who actually did do something. Or was it his dad who invented the Hughes oil drilling drill.
Or did Lenny make another movie I never saw. I’m not much into movies; particularly ones with movie stars in them.
He wasn’t in “Anna Karenina” as far as I can remember. Maybe it was “And Quiet Flows the Don.” unless they haven’t made that yet, in which case he wouldn’t have been in it anyway.
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What kind if qualifications does one need to be a “UN Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change.”
What a BS title !
How many other Messengers of Peace does the UN have?
This amounts to an official position based on the baseless idea that “global warming causes wars”.
Well at least that explains the UN’s total failure at resolving any conflicts : Palestine, Iraq invasion, Aleppo ; the track record is not good.
Now we know why they have been such a failure: we are still burning too much coal !!
Maybe they need to send DiCaprio to Aleppo to explain the importance of “carbon” in bringing peace.
That would be a very sad day!
Yay!
L.O.L.
But…but…but…he looks so HANDSOME, and that beard makes him look so SMART and he truly, truly CARES.
ISN’T THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU PEOPLE?
/sarc off
Seriously, I wish I could allay my environmental guilt (if I ever actually have any) by canoodling with a super model on a yacht owned by an oil billionaire while moving millions of other people’s millions around.
He’s due to attend the London Film Festival tomorrow.
No doubt to add to his collection of AirMiles.
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=989A1772-19C1-46E0-BA78-6D58DE8427EA&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=26BEAC06-B0DF-4AE6-A0AA-B2423FC396B9&utm_content=bufferb56f2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
If you own your own jet, can you give yourself air miles? Can you trade them in for carbon credits?
Why not? Didn’t Al Gore buy Carbon Credits from himself?
Don, John,
Good.
I’ve just sold 17 trillion indulgences – to me [not I].
I think I can now have a Barbecue.
Not in South London, in mid-October, obviously, but wherever and whenever I choose.
Can I be a UN Panjandrum, please?
[And, if so, can I avoid ever meeting any Candidate for POTUS?? Please?]
Pretty Please??
Auto
Wanna sell me an indulgence?
Cheep . . . .?
He gets an expense account from the UN to use to pay for his attendance at official climate-related propaganda gatherings. It reimburses private jet travel and provides a per diem (5 star hotel and restaurant meals) worthy of an elitist spokesperson. No shit. Not kidding.
Yeah. Refuel at the AeroShell Fixed Base Operation.
An ultimatum implies there is a threat if there is no compliance with the request. No threat no ultimatum. It is a petition.
Not true.
These rainforest guys will stop their little feet until they hurt. So there.
stop = stomp
I saw a Nat Geo Wild piece in which these three Africans (real ones) ran around barefoot in a desert, with all sorts of prickly plants, and stones on the ground, carrying their bows and arrows, and chasing a solo Gemsbock or some such big antelope with really big long horns that would do a nice Vlad the Impaler job on any one of those three chaps.
They literally ran for hours in the hot sun chasing this antelope to exhaustion, with the cameraman keeping up with them, or maybe a hell of a long focal length video lens, until after hours and sipping a few drops of water from some plant they finally got to where the antelope stopped and stared them down, as if it was about to make like brother Vlad.
So one of them was now close enough (the next victim I guess) to finally shoot the antelope with their poison tipped arrow which they poisoned with a home made confection. No they don’t have colorful poisonous tree frogs in Africa I think: try South America or central.
So now the antelope takes off; (wouldn’t you) and it now takes a bunch more hours to finally die from the poison, so they can cut out the place where the arrow entered, and eat the rest.
I do hope the cameraman’s vehicle gave them a ride with their bock back to camp.
So that’s what real caring people do; these fellows stomped all over the barren rocks etc chasing a hoofed animal eminently suited to living on such plush terrain.
Lenny would probably ride with the camera backup truck.
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Don’t you just love it when a hypocrite is unmasked. I have been banging on about this second rate actor and his best bud Al Gore for ages, as my old Mum used to say you can ‘be sure your sins will find you out’.
Well said Jane
These people are truly beyond parody.
Oh contraire, I believe he has the exact amount of credibility commensurate with such an august title……none.
Yes. Sad. He would of blended seamlessly with the climate alphabets.
So what will his October Title be?
You mean “au contraire”. 🙂
au concrete?
Boot . . . .
Surely his watermelon buddies won’t do that?
?? Ever??!
Surely!?
Auto, appreciating the actor to the max.
Mods – no sarc. Obviously. Sarc.
Anthony, the extreme environmental community has started to eat their own. I suspect that you have read a recent piece in The Guardian, where Josh Fox called President Obama essentially a denier.
Michael Mann, Bill McKibben and Josh Fox should carve the world into three and each tell a third of us sub-huma, how humans are to live properly.
Keep up the great work you do, Anthony. Many of us rely on your larger world reporting.
Steve
I guess he’s only allowed to be part of ONE corrupt group at a time?
Of course not. I give you an F in Business Administration.
Not to mention his eco resort development for the uber wealthy which will cover over a large part of a previously undeveloped tropical island with energy intensive , capital intensive condos for the .1% , while denying access to the local subsistence fisherman who have traditionally had access . This could never be built as planned in any country with even modest environmental protection laws . Beats me how he could ever get insurance for a billion dollar project built at sea level right in the hurricane belt . The whole thing sounds like something right out of the onion . I wonder why no one has brought this environment killer up yet ?
“Not to mention his eco resort development for the uber wealthy which will cover over a large part of a previously undeveloped tropical island with energy intensive , capital intensive condos for the .1% , while denying access to the local subsistence fisherman who have traditionally had access .”
Usually, when posting something like this, it’s customary to provide some evidence in the form of links to verifiable sources. Otherwise you’ve simply made a gratuitous assertion which can be just as gratuitously ignored.
In other words, put up or shut up.
DiCaprio Just the Latest Celebrity to Join the Hotel Business
Easy enough to find , it was written up in the real estate / travel section of the nytimes ; huff po , etc . Without the least bit of commentary on the environmental damage or impact . The style / real estate people fawned and gushed over it . He even has deepak chopra to help improve the circadian lighting and insufficient quality of natural air to make it more healthy for his condo owners and the climate scientists he plans on hosting . The name of the island is blackadder cay and its off the belizean coast . Should be no problem to google it . Its for ( sur ) real .
BTW , if you do google the times , huffpo and other stories about it , you’ll find a stream of comments about it from the greenest of people that make these comments sound like fan mail by comparison . No way around it , he’s either collosally hypocritical or monumentally clueless . Your guess is as good as mine
Looks like he plans on creating a “sustainable” resort, including 45 individual homes at $10 million apiece, on an island with no potable water. Roof (tarp) water runoff is what I have seen in Belieze; it is stored in plastic reserviors. The sustainable storage facilities on Lennys’ magical island will be made of native materials (where possible), and visitors will not be allowed to use plastic bottles to store their own personal water.
Rates for the other portion of the resort (68 rental bungalows) are yet to be determined, but similar places are $1,000 a night.
I guess if you feed anything enough money, you can claim that it is sustainable.
I suspect 10 years from now ,we will be able to watch youtube videos of the abandoned resort as it crumbles away.
It’ll require massive desalinators to supply water for drinking , cooking , showers , pools and landscaping at the least . Then there’s the problem of sewage treatment , garbage and waste removal , ; supplying food and beverages from the mainland ; refrigeration and air conditioning ; domestic electricity . Not to mention the building and ongoing logistcal support to keep it all going . Gonna take a heap of solar panels and electric boats and machinery . Sustainable huh ? Show me
$1000 per night + $500 to ‘offset’ your carbon. It’s all perfectly sustainable.
Catch Leonardo if you can!
What goes around comes around.
Funny a high school drop out is all good till he doesn’t share the money and THEN not qualified 😉
The flip-side is that the UN has to stoop to the extent that the best candidate rfor the role (yes ROLE!!!) is an uneducated pretty-boy from Hollywood, whose objective credentials fall short of Paris Hilton’s. Who sought-out whom, one might well ask!? Is the UN reduced to scraping the barrel for such people to serve as titular ‘Ambassadors’? This sounds like desperation on their part to me: if they can’t adduce their arguments without recourse to pretty-boys (and -ladies) for chocolate-box wrapping, they are beyond redemption.
And is diCaprio reduced to peddling his image thro’ an agency headed by the lamentable puppet, Ban Ki Moon?
They deserve each other. A pox on both their houses.
He could always start a made-to-fail solar company with lots of grants and loans.
http://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/bill-nye-backed-solar-company-aims-cut-cost-solar-60.html
I am loving it. We’ve felt the sting of their hypocrisy for so damn long that watching one get what’s coming satisfies. Now if we can just get this treatment for my local boy Al Gore. Public humiliation followed by a good dose of incarceration. No justice No peace Leo.
DiCaprio’s hubris explains all: any means of self-advancement is his driving force and likely has nothing to do with any vehicle he chooses for such advancement. Nobel Prize must clearly be in his sights, as well as a Presidential run. Al Gore is likely his model.
So anyhow, what is this kid’s real name; I mean not the one he plays on celluloid ??
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Gen Sec of the very first UN conference: Bad roots rotten tree.
left out his name…. Alger Hiss
As I noted in a prior post—Obummer’s Water Boy and consummate BED WETTER Leo described his fright to the UN General Assembly in the trailer featuring the Climate Farce scheduled to air on NatGeo Channel DIRECTV 276, 30Oct16.
Also featured are Physicist Jack Black with his normal modicum of Hollywood stupidity ( why didn’t King Kong not eat this cretin ? ) and Archbishop AlGore in his finest arrogance.
AGW ate Nat Geo which was one of my favorite windows on the world. Tragic.
And the Nobel Peace Prize will have to wait till next year.
This is old. The story dates back to August. He hasn’t dealt with it yet. The stench isn’t going away.
Actually, I kind of think the beard makes him look more like Mikey Mann – just a little better looking and a helluva lot richer. Maybe Mikey is his idol!
On provides acting services to science journals, the other provides acting services to Hollywood directors.
My hope is that this all ends like the earlier struggle against Communism. I came in after much of the real desperate dirty fighting had been done by people better than me. Many of them did not live to see the victory and often doubted the outcome. This is like that. They will lose. We can’t help but ensure it.
Gotta goggle Mickey Mann
I live in the South. We can’t afford Google