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.
Any leader dealing with a celeb from acting like Crapio should bear in mind their one skill they are paid a fortune for is that of making fiction even that of utter fantasy appear, temporarily at least, credible as fact.
Trump should not dismiss climate science he should put in place a one year program as well funded as global warming was with the aim of discrediting the science and suspend all climate based rules and subsidies until it has reported back.
If it is beyond question as claimed the pages of the report should be blank.
I thought Leonardo DiCaprio said he would leave USA if Trump was elected,
That’s the only reason Trump was elected !!
Not the only reason. There were a lot of other celebrities who promised to leave as well.
Why on earth do Presidents and Presidents elect feel that they have to give so much of their valuable time to actors who seek to bolster their celebrity status by latching on to a subject about which they know so very little. Actors generally follow any cause that brings them added publicity, and should not be encouraged by those who are tasked with looking at problems from a viewpoint that does not have self promotion as its primary objective.. The assumption that actors know more about a hugely complicated science that constitutes the global warming arguments on a worldwide scale is false, and well beyond the balanced thinking of the majority of the acting profession whose job in life is simply to repeat words written by others and get paid far too much money for doing so. Let’s keep the celebs out of it; they are paid to act and not to persuade Presidents that they no better.
sorry ‘know better’
GOAL 1: Net zero carbon emissions by 2050
Idiotic idea unless we go Nuclear.
GOAL 2: Average carbon price of $25 per tonne (USD) by 2020
Idiotic goal by brainwashed individuals to argue ‘we have an economic way’ to force renewables to be cheap. 100% stupid.
GOAL 3: Zero net loss of forests by 2020 and protection of 30% of the oceans by 2030
Interesting, actually a better place for these guy to put their hats! Are they finding their way again?
GOAL 4: 100% climate literacy by 2020
I don’t like coal dear sam,
I don’t like the oil can,
its green windmills green solar
it all brainwashing in the plan.
GOAL 5: 40% more efficient by 2025 compared to 2015 (this appears to be related to efficient use of energy)
Pipedream.
GOAL 6: 90% reduction of all waste by 2025
I will be sending all my lithium batters, dead phones, dried paint cans, all those asphalt shingles I need to rip off to put on Musk’s Miracle Roof directly to the California landfills. Since by 2025 waste will be down 90% they will do just fine dealing with them!
GOAL 7: 100% of all energy generation from renewables by 2050
His fantasy world has engulfed his prefrontal lobe so that now reality and fantasy are indistinguishable.
GOAL 8: Net zero transportation emissions by 2050
We won’t even talk about this one until we see DiCaprio on a bike every day for a year.
Of all the people to have Trump listen to about global warming, Leonardo DiCaprio? There are so many knowledgeable people on this subject and the president’s time is tight for every subject, so he meets with an actor? Is this a pay for play thing? Like the Clinton foundation works? If you listen to Leonardo talk on this he sounds like a child, he seems to think we can choose what energy sources we want without economic consequences. “Mommy, Daddy, I’m going to have the world change ALL of its gas and coal powered things changed over to SOLAR and WIND energy powered things! Then we’ll never have any change in the climate or sea level again! And everyone will have good jobs replacing those old global warming causing cars and power plants over to solar and wind energy! Isn’t that a great idea? I don’t know why no one thought of it before!” Oh, well its because you are so much SMARTER than everyone else Leo, no one would have thought of this if not for you! Thank goodness you are so environmentally conscious, you are such a GOOD BOY!
Mankind has saved life on Earth as it restores some of the sequestered CO2 eaten and removed by voracious plants, which is now starving and stunting the Plant Kingdom. Plants had consumed almost all the Atmospheric CO2, and nearing the death levels of atmospheric CO2 at 150 ppm.
Assuming that you would even want to stop the needed restoration, until it approached the levels that Plants need at around 1200 at ppm,
North America is a net carbon dioxide sink, already. It is done by by bio-sequestration as our farmers and ranchers consume CO2 while growing food. So his number 1 objective has been long accomplished. North America is a below ZERO net producer of CO2. But the fool wouldn’t know that as he never even graduated from high school, with intermittent tutoring given him as a child actor.
We merely have to declare victory and cease the effort. He is overpaid and under-educated.
Let the rest of the world like China and India catch up. But they are not even required to start until 2035 under the lopsided treaties that the Green Foolish politicians negotiated.
The proverb suggests that potential Fools should remain quiet lest they open their mouths and remove all doubt.
“•GOAL 4: 100% climate literacy by 2020”
Uh oh… only 3 years till brainwashing is complete!
The film was blocked in Sweden because of copywrite [reasons]!!!