Leonardo DiCaprio has met with Donald Trump and his team, to try to convince him to implement a programme of green job creation.
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“Today, we presented the President-elect and his advisors with a framework – which LDF developed in consultation with leading voices in the fields of economics and environmentalism – that details how to unleash a major economic revival across the United States that is centered on investments in sustainable infrastructure,” Tamminen said.
“Our conversation focused on how create millions of secure, American jobs in the construction and operation of commercial and residential clean, renewable energy generation.”
The Oscar-winning actor has been a strong advocate of fighting climate change and preserving wildlife, and his recent documentary, Before the Flood, addresses the peril that the world faces because of climate change.
DiCaprio met with Ivanka Trump a few days ago and presented her with a copy of the film.
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LDF is the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
I don’t know exactly what DiCaprio presented to President-elect Trump, but something called the “LDF Climate Action Plan” is available here.
The main points of the LDF plan;
- GOAL 1: Net zero carbon emissions by 2050
- GOAL 2: Average carbon price of $25 per tonne (USD) by 2020
- GOAL 3: Zero net loss of forests by 2020 and protection of 30% of the oceans by 2030
- GOAL 4: 100% climate literacy by 2020
- GOAL 5: 40% more efficient by 2025 compared to 2015 (this appears to be related to efficient use of energy)
- GOAL 6: 90% reduction of all waste by 2025
- GOAL 7: 100% of all energy generation from renewables by 2050
- GOAL 8: Net zero transportation emissions by 2050
Like a lot of DiCaprio offerings, the plan is long on big ideas and short on detail. The plan mentions the word “jobs” exactly twice. The following quote is telling about the kind of green jobs DiCaprio expects us ordinary folk to do, while he jets about above our heads.
… Installing building insulation or rooftop solar panels; converting decomposing waste into new products and clean, local energy resources; and restoring forests are just a few examples of how we can create millions of new jobs and make our communities healthier and more equitable, while making the globe a little cooler at the same time. …
If I get a choice I’d rather go for one of the forest planting jobs rather than the decomposing waste or rooftop solar jobs. Less chance of being electrocuted or falling from a height, and a lot less smelly.
In case you haven’t seen the DiCaprio climate documentary, I’ve created a 5 minute summary, to save you having to watch the entire film.
Use a VPN. Completely bypasses geographic limitations. It also bypasses Chinese censorship.
Eric probably uploaded from Australia, which is considered Asia in some internet circles.
I started watching but the gorge started rising so I gave up before upchucking on the monitor
I like the goal 4 , 100% climate literacy by 2020. Starting from 0% that is going to be a difficult task.
Makes one wonder how heavily Leo is invested in renewables.
One wonders how much Mr Pruitt has invested in fossil fuels…
(Fox – henhouse… just saying)
The difference is the fossil fuel industry is not asking to remake the economy, enjoy massive subsidies and mandates, eliminate competition, and silence dissent. The only tax breaks the fossil fuel industry gets are those open to any business in any industry. There is no conflict of interest if all you want is a level playing field.
As a public employee, his investments are a matter of record.
Why don’t you look it up instead of just insinuating that he must be corrupt?
Griff:
“One wonders how much Mr Pruitt has invested in fossil fuels…”
Are you suggesting there is something wrong with buying shares in oil and coal companies? Consider the alternative – selling them. You can only sell a share that someone else buys. The idea that ‘selling fossil fuel companies shares’ somehow penalises them, is obtuse.
It is far better to demonstrate your opposition to fossil fuels (and I encourage you to do this) by refusing to buy them yourself or to buy anything that has been produced using them. Be the change you wish to see.
The first thing on my list of ‘stuff not to buy’ are windmills which are only as cheap as they are because of the coal-fired electricity plants powering the factories in China which make them. As for yourself, you should give up your keyboard which is plastic and anything made of metal, which probably includes the wires leading to the internet. Think of the difference you will make!
You fox-henhouse metaphor makes no sense. Mr Pruitt is charged with protecting the environment, not environmentalists, nor their NGO’s, nor their running-dog PR consultants. Nor is the head of the EPA charged with protecting the vast subsidies that are shovelled, nay tossed, into hare-brained schemes. He is also not tasked to funnel money to ‘advocacy groups’ paying them to sue the EPA for ‘not doing something’ in order to evade the due process of creating laws to protect the nation and its peoples.
He is tasked with keeping a proper record of all communications and making them public if asked. He is not to have secret email accounts in pseudonyms and must not have personal servers with secret work-related communications on it, and he is to avoid forwarding his confidential work-related emails to his wife’s Yahoo account to make it easier for the housekeeper to print them at her convenience at home.
One of the first things he will do, I suspect, is to remove the EPA regulations governing puddles of rainwater.
Why don’t you go and look it up instead of casting aspersions, you sad little propagandist?
After all, it is a matter of public record.
But you knew that anyway, you just couldn’t miss an opportunity to try to slag him off, could you?
You know, one day you are going to post one slanderous accusation too many, and you are going to end up in court, so I hope you have plenty of money to defend yourself.
As an attorney general of OK, Griff, it would be against the law for Pruitt to have vested interests in fossil fuels.
However, where is YOUR invested interest in this whole thing? Are you so brainwashed with the CAGW meme that you can’t think straight, or are you heavily invested in renewables? It has to be one of the two.
Inquiring minds want to know.
I see Dicap is playing the part with a “climatologist” facial hair style.
I can’t even watch his movies anymore. His face tells all to me. He has mean eyes.
Except maybe for when he played Arnie in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”. Check it out.
You don’t know him until you’ve seen that movie.
100% climate literacy by 2020
Creepy. Creepy.
I submit nearly 99% of Americans already know the Climate Meme is just a scam and it won’t take long for those who are pushing for it to change directions when there’s no more money to be made by harping on it.
Well, I can imagine this will be like the 99% literacy rate in Cuba: self-defined, or at least, counted by the same people who gave Castro 100% of the votes…
Credit where credit is due. Cuba does have a high literacy rate.
But what can Cubans read, MRW? Mao had his little red book, Hitler had a short reading list for his subjects, and other despots have burned all the books that don’t follow the “party line”. I’m sure the US Constitution isn’t on every Cuban’s recommended reading list.
You will learn to read, or we will throw your parents into the gulag.
Nothing like a little incentive to get the little tykes going.
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When is Anthony’s meeting with the president-elect scheduled?
The Useful Idiot Full Employment Act is expiring Lenny.
“Goal 4: 100% climate literacy by 2020”
Is evidently a clear comedy winner in this thread. And coming from the man who thinks a Chinook wind is global warming you can feel and touch that surely sets the irony meters spinning like wind turbines in a winter gale.
That “Chinook wind is global warming” story is pretty g.d funny. DiCaprio even had the Canadian PM laughing at him for that gaffe. I recall that Albertans including grandmas and kids guffawed at DiCaprio’s ignorance.
Can the Calgarians here weigh in with that story? For the Europeans on this site and who may not know, Wikipedia describes the effect of Chinook winds in Southern Alberta here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind. It also has a picture of how they work. Bottom line is that temps can change dramatically. In one historical instance 41 °C (74 °F) in one hour.
DiCaprio experienced a Chinook (or two) while filming somewhere in the Bow Valley near the Rocky Mountains during January, and after filming announced to the world that he’d just seen global warming up front and personal and that it was terrifying proof of the dangers that lay ahead.
hahahahahaha
MRW, you forgot the BWAhahahahaBwahahaha that JM likes so much ( as I do in this case) It was hilarious. I really, really wonder what was said at the meeting between those two. ( To be a fly with human hearing and the brain to understand the talk)
When actors like DiCaprio, for example, spend a lot of their time lecturing the rest of us about our beliefs, it makes it hard for me to separate that political person out from the character they are attempting to portray in a film, especially when I don’t agree with their views. There are some actors I can’t stand to watch anymore, like Barbara Streisand, in addition to DiCaprio, and many others. It has ruined their entertainment value for me. The Academy awards has become so politicized I can’t watch it any more. They don’t change my mind, they just tick me off.
And Hollyweird actually wonders why so many films are failing financially.
I feel exactly the same. It’s always with a sense of disappointment when I hear of another well-known and once loved actor coming the high and mighty on green issues. It turns me off completely. They don’t change my mind one iota, they do however make me turn my back. As my entertainment is all bought DVDs (I gave up on television broadcasts years ago), that’s money missing from their pockets. If I recognize a greenie dictator in the movie, that movie goes back on the shelf.
Sadly there are quite a few names on that list. DiCaprio is one of them. It’s a shame. He’s an excellent actor, but I just cannot respect him anymore.
I used to like the Dixie Chicks, but when they decided to dis the commander in chief in front of a foreign audience, they left my play list forever.
I’m not the only one, because shortly after that they switched from Country to Pop, however their careers have never recovered.
Hi MarkW. Yeah, it’s weird isn’t it, how they don’t seem to grasp how it’s their own actions and words bouncing back on them. They’ll wake up eventually. One by one. No one will care about them by then.
Ummm… WTF is “100% climate literacy by 2020”? Brain implants forcing rightthought?
NO, leftthought!
Oh, right.
Leftthought
Re-education camps is what he implies.
Whatever it takes for us all to be word-perfect on the issue. 100% of the population.
Including infants?
You bet, MarkW. Babies gotta know green from the moment they first breathe. Then their parents have to pay tax on it.
Said one tax deduction to another tax deduction
GOAL 8: Net zero transportation emissions by 2050
Can’t even use a horse and cart. Sea voyages will be interesting.
It take it that means Saint Leonardo will be giving up his jet set lifestyle.
It said net, so Lenny can keep riding in private jets, he just has to buy indulgences to compensate.
Maybe the President Elect is looking for a cheap holiday on an island ……. before it goes under water.
I’m sorry, but Goal 4 really made me laugh:
“GOAL 4: 100% climate literacy by 2020”
Won’t get to that 100% figure without DiCaprio becoming “climate literate”, will we?
Just stop paying to see his movies and he will quickly vanish into the puff of smoke – that is the core of his being. GK
Not a problem. I and many many of my friend have done just that. And the number is growing! Leo will suffer the ESPN conservative effect.
Only a socialist would be ignorant enough to believe that you can create wealth by taking money from people who work in order to give it to people who vote for you.
I always find it interesting that Greens propose carbon taxes and never say what the money will be used for. $25/ton of carbon is seemingly small, but considering that the US consumes 17 million bbls/day of crude alone makes this number staggering. If the so called price of carbon is based on carbon itself, and not CO2, than the tax on fuel would have to be $0.1675/gal. Multiplying this through the bbl/day using 42 gal/bbl, this means a tax on crude alone of $43.6 billion dollars.
So, before this is even proposed, someone should at least discuss where this money would be used as each American will be taxed an additional $125/yr for fuel alone and pay both directly and indirectly through rising costs of goods as businesses pass this tax along to consumers as is customary and normal for any business. No matter what the government does about taxes, the people end up paying the tax.
Staggering is the key word that lured Dems in hook line and sinker for the money and power associated with that Spindletop gusher of revenue. They could siphon off that for a generation before the truth caught up. Hansen was just the initial idiot idea man that set off the political spark and money crusade. He was the Jonathan Gruber of climate.
How about $25/tone on imports only.
And a separate 10% carbon fee on gross receipts for all tv and film productions outside the US.
The $25/ton of carbon is where I stopped reading his drivel. I won’t pay a dime in carbon tax. I mean it!
The money would go to manage said money (probably around 25%), to subsidize the poor that cannot afford to pay the tax/fee (around 40%), “green research” (15%), and “green incentives” (45%).
“GOAL 6: 90% reduction of all waste by 2025”
I wonder if Lenny composts his household waste?
Does he recycle, or does he leave that up to the help?
There are a lot of DVDs and merchandizing that would be included in that waste reduction.
Good to see him putting his GED to work .
I would agree with 100% Climate Literacy… if I get to define what Climate Literacy is. Otherwise, no deal.
Sort of like, I can live with a dictatorship… if I get to be dictator. Otherwise, no deal.
Exactly
Actually Leonardo does deserve an award. If climate change over reach was the government push that was one too many and the straw that broke the camels back of socialism, then Leonardo deserves at least to share the Nobel in Economics as a not insignificant tool in reversing direction and the massive fail that is unfolding now around the world. No academic could accomplish that one. Climate change scare was more than just a niche policy issue, it was a trigger.
Climate Literacy is what got Trump elected. Knowledge about the true state of the climate is the enemy of The Greens. The more people know, about the climate, past and present, the less they want the government to “tax, regulate, and spend, pretending to address a non-problem”.
Climate illiteracy is what the Greens want. Memorize the slogans that the collective produces, and regurgitate as required. No independent thought allowed. That is the problem. Without actually processing the information, you don’t understand the logical inconsistencies in the constituent processes. You are not literate. You have a crutch that gives the appearance of literacy, yet you do not have understanding.
Opus Leo Di needs to cut back on the cocaine enemata rituals. Ha ha
…. The Democrats aren’t thinking of running Di Caprio as their Presidential candidate next time are they?
…And there goes my coffee…