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.
Chinook Boy… LOL
Peace through war. Torture through sodomy. Justice with assassination. Immigration reform through refugee crises. Ecological conservation through redistributed destruction. Human dignity through class diversity. Inclusion through selective exclusion (“=”).
Still, of all their observable and progressive bigotry, the greatest is their denial of human evolution from conception, and their firm embrace of the fantasy of spontaneous conception. I wonder how many people actually believe this or receive comfort from the State/Church’s message when they commit and advocate for mass abortion of wholly innocent human lives.
Whether it is the green, clean propaganda of the environmental lobbyists, their Pro-Choice quasi-religion is a double-edged scalpel that can and should be used to expose and mitigate their distortion and corruption.
“… 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. …”
Who is to pay for these things? How do they create wealth and not national debt? Who thinks these things will cool the earth and why would they think that?
My suspicion is that Mr DiCaprio has not considered these questions with any realism. His “plan” certainly doesn’t indicate any realism.
Like most leftists, Lenny has no idea regarding what creates wealth.
He probably thinks that hiring two people, one to dig holes and the other to fill them creates wealth.
Well, he sits at the knee of people like Naomi Klein.
Trump obviously has no understanding of how Washington is supposed to work. He just had private meetings with Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio without either one of them paying Ivanka or Melania $200,000 to give an insipid speech somewhere. Unprecedented! Incontheevable!
The world (as establishment politicians know it) is doomed!
Now that’s funny!
+10
You have to be kidding me. Trump will spit him out like a watermelon seed. I’m surprised the warmists even let this meeting take place considering DiCaprio’s penchant for vapid talk about AGW.
Even if Trump fully agreed with him, it’s difficult to envisage what more he could achieve with goal #4 than has already (not) been achieved in 8 years under Obama. The US population has remained largely refractory to the increasingly hysterical pleadings and threats.
Trump has already met with Gore and Leo. How many climate skeptics has Obama ever met with? Oh those open-minded libs…
This makes me sick! I want to see Leo’s real credentials and perhaps take a few tests before he speaks another word about CAGW. Leo is so full of it and I actually liked his films. I know the science. IT AIN’T anywhere near settled and anyone who said this even once is not worth listening to ever again! REALLY!
Well, he’s a high school dropout. But he does have that beard, so he’s playing a professor in real life.
Hollywood. The land of make-believe. And real, REAL dumb actors.
Take a break Leo, a four year break, and go spend time with your love child collection.
Wow. The LDF plan is terrifying, where it not for the internet; which provides a pipeline to study the matter. 100% literacy is a tremendous goal, however I wonder at the accepted content, which is to be curated. How is the viewpoint of the alarmist ever to reach adoption by 100% of the population when access to information is trending up? The LDF plan is madness and hubris rolled up into a Pillsbury dough delight and I’m guessing Trump won’t bite. Climate Alarmism is expensive and it’s horrible in its waste of human resources, worse Alarmism erodes opportunity to meaningful human advancements.
Perhaps Leonardo and his ilk would like a nice entertainment tax?
His movies are far more polluting and CO2 could ever be.
and = than
By his bloating appearance, I think he could stand to limit his carbs.
A 35 percent tax like cigarettes would be appropriate and no tax credits
I think the gotee and tache…well they don’t seem to be working well. As a matter of fact they seem to be fighting.
That is truly a defiant look on his face…could he be in a position of losing a lot of money from Trumps anti-global warming policies. The huge tax tax cuts could be effecting him personally…thus the U-turn.
I wonder if Lenny would be lead by example in one of those green jobs.
When I hear the word Foundation…well I just get a little twitchy. Running this foundation must be expensive. I wonder if Lenny gets any environmental tax funding, or granting.
Man he fights hard as the new ambassadour of ‘Whatever’ for the UN.
I wonder how much of that vast fortune Lenny has is invested in companies that sell carbon tickets.
When a ‘ACTOR’ is brought in in to these positions, I always wonder.
Lenny in the end does not seem sincere, I could understand if he was. As a matter of fact I could applaud it…this lenny, the ‘before the flood’ lenny, is going to lose big money.
A lot those hollywood big shots, dropped some serious coin into AGW.
Actually the beard? It reminds me of some Russian guy. Lenin? ( sorry if I am wrong but it sure ain’t Marxs that guy had a beard a mile long)
The tweeter meets the twit.
The Dachau prison camp started out as a place for ordinary political prisoners who would not sign the papers of allegiance.
Nothing says irrelevant like this high school drop out’s opinion about anything … except maybe acting.
and acting up
The adults have taken over.
I liked it better when celebrities just became scientologists.
“GOAL 1: Net zero carbon emissions by 2050″…..Why bother? For who’s purpose?
“GOAL 2: Average carbon price of $25 per tonne (USD) by 2020″…. Why bother? Does this mean us carbon-based life forms will have to pay by the pound for simply being alive? How will wildlife pay for their existence?
“GOAL 3: Zero net loss of forests by 2020 and protection of 30% of the oceans by 2030″….Why bother? Does this mean that LDF will be launching a campaign to make beavers extinct? The emerald ash borer? Dutch elm disease? (I’m sure there multiple things out there that kill trees that aren’t human.)
“GOAL 4: 100% climate literacy by 2020″….So Mann and Gore will be appointed the Climate Editors at TWC and the internet for life?
“GOAL 5: 40% more efficient by 2025 compared to 2015 (this appears to be related to efficient use of energy)” OK. Got me. This is achievable…but only if a way can be found to harness his hot air to perform some useful work.
“GOAL 6: 90% reduction of all waste by 2025″…But then what would happen to the MSM and Hollywood?
No more royalties for syndication?
“GOAL 7: 100% of all energy generation from renewables by 2050″…So, if he survives all his “goals”, his private jets will have a coal tender….er….corn tender to keep their engines going?
“GOAL 8: Net zero transportation emissions by 2050″…Best results of this LDF plan would be that everyone would be on foot. But, then again, the more they walk, the more they emit.
I guess the only way to reach his goals is for everyone else to die.
Will Trump hear and learn about Zero Point Energy or will the Occult keep that from him.
we will see.
The reality is that the climate chnge we are experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which Mankind has no control. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate. The US federal government is a business in trouble with a huge debt and huge annual loses. The US economy has a big problem associated with its huge annual trade deficit. The President needs to first devote his efforts to reducing the federal government’s debts and turning the economy around so that we have annual trade surppluses that can be user to help end our past trade defcicits. I estimate that the money the federal govenment is borrowing today will end up costing the taxpayers more than 12 times the amount borrowed to pay back over the next 180 years. We need a President who is there for the American tax payer and will work with congress to stop all this federal borrowing and keep the federal goevrnment solvent.
The trade deficit is caused by the budget deficit. It can’t be solved until the budget deficit is fixed.
When we buy stuff from foreigners, they get dollars in exchange.
There’s only one thing that can be done with dollars, buy stuff from America.
If they don’t buy stuff from America, the supply of dollars outside the US goes up, which makes their price go down.
This causes stuff bought from America to go down in price. While the stuff we buy from them goes up in price. As a result, the trade deficit will trend towards zero.
The problem is that foreigners have the option of buying US treasuries, and lots of them do. Because US Treasuries are considered a good investment for most of the world.
Because they are buying Treasuries, the supply of dollars outside the US does not go up, and the value of dollars outside the US does not fall.
To conclude, fix the US budget deficit, and the US trade deficit will fix itself. Don’t fix the US budget deficit, and nothing we do will have an impact on the US trade deficit.
So, “GOAL 4: 100% climate literacy by 2020.” if anyone think they will be able to cram a bunch of environmental dogma down my throat, they have another thing coming. I would like to give Mr. DiCaprio the first opportunity to do so, in person. He would not survive.
Dicaprio , Gore , Podesta , Soros , Steyer will obviously never ever be the Trump team pals . The only question is in what form will their Trojan Horse come . I hope it’s not family .
The Greens got 1 % for a reason and is there any doubt the Clinton Political Corporation isn’t regretting the day they took the money to cosy up with Greenie California bag men who controlled their campaign agenda ? Would Hillary have lost if she wasn’t pressured to show their true colors ? … Fire coal workers , Deplorables , Deniers .. their trade mark intimidation tactics . All that green catering and the thinly disguised put down of working people cost her the election . She didn’t need their money . She had far too much beholding money . Mr Trump traveled light .
The Democrats sold their soul to green wash capitalists and stupidly they are going to immediately do it again . Why would they retain a failed California rain maker if they weren’t going back to the same bankers ?
That money hurt her and cost the Democrats big time . Well that and … Fainting , Deleteing E mails , Clinton Foundation and taking their “safe ” voting base completely for granted , etc . The green wash agenda didn’t fit her and hiding the carbon tax agenda just added to her lack of trust . The Green bankers even helped destroy Bernie who might have won .
Beware of the Trojan Horse Mr .Trump it’s being built, it rides in elevators is Green on the outside and usually postmarked from California .
The Trump super team pulled off a miracle giving Billions hope for government that works for people just please watch what company you keep . They took Hillary down .
“LDF Climate Action Plan”
It’s wishful thinking and fantasy. Here’s a simple climate action plan for you Leonardo. Educate yourself on climate science by getting a degree on meteorology from MIT under Prof. Lindzen. If you pass his course, at least you can speak intelligently about climate change. If not, stop wasting your time and money on climate change. The ignorant can only spread his ignorance.
He’s going to get to play president Trump in the movie…this meeting sealed the deal!
The scariest goal is GOAL 4: 100% “climate literacy” .
As long as it is the same as De Caprio’s “climate literacy.” urk.