Yes, this Dicaprio, ~ctm
From The Mail Online
By Rebecca Lawrence For Mailonline
Published: 04:29 EST, 21 December 2018 | Updated: 04:31 EST, 21 December 2018
Leonardo DiCaprio‘s eponymous foundation has now raised $100 million towards helping the fight against climate change.
The actor, 44, set up the charity in 1998 to promote environmental awareness and throws several fundraising events a year, including an annual star-studded gala.
Over the past two decades he has supported over 200 environmentally focused projects, in their mission to support innovative projects that protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction, while restoring balance to threatened ecosystems and communities.
Fantastic fundraiser: Leonardo DiCaprio’s eponymous foundation has now raised $100 million towards helping the fight against climate change
Leonardo was recently honoured at the charity’s 20th anniversary event – a gala that was attended by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna and Ellen DeGeneres.
Taking to the stage, the Oscar-winning actor announced that there would be $11 million worth of new funding – taking the charity’s contribution past the $100 million mark.
A statement on the foundation’s website read: ‘When I founded LDF 20 years ago, I did so based on the simple idea that we could make a real difference by directly funding some of the most effective environmental projects.
Money maker: The actor, 44, set up the charity in 1998 to promote environmental awareness and throws several fundraising events a year, including an annual star-studded gala
‘Whether it be individuals, grassroots movements or major nonprofits, we wanted to focus on getting critical funding to those who could have the greatest impact.
‘We are extremely proud to celebrate 20 years of this model. Since 1998, we have supported over 200 projects on every continent and in every ocean from habitat and species conservation, renewable energy, climate change, indigenous rights, and more.
HT/Cam_S
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But the reality is that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. So all the money in the world could not provide mankind with the power to stop the climate from changing. So this effort to fight climate change is just a waste of money. But even is we could somehow stop the climate from changing, extreme weather events and sea level rise is part of the current climate and would continue. Stopping the climate from changing will be of no benefit to mankind. Mankind has not been able to change one extreme weather event let alone change the climate. Mankind does not even know what the ideal climate really is. So even if we could change the Earth’s climate to a specified ideal climate, we do not even know what that ideal climate really is.
Reality: CO2 emissions are far too weak to affect the climate. DeCaprio just threw away 1×10^6 dollars on a mission unworkable.
Far from it. It is a well known theorem that every $ spent now will probably save $10 down the line. Also, people like DiCaprio can choose to spend their hard earned bucks anyway they like. You might spend it on bourbon or bowling or buying teddy bears, for example, and no-one is telling you it is a waste of money.
He might want to gamble the money – is that also a waste of money? Are you the judge now of what he should or should not spend his money on?
Reality: CO2 emissions are far too weak to affect the climate. DeCaprio just threw away 1×10^6 dollars on a mission unworkable.
Renewable energy projects are the greatest destroyers of the environment known to man (or woman or it). People with no knowledge of the consequences of what they fund should be removed to where they can do no harm.
Well said. The environmental destruction from “renewables” is monstrous yet these self-serving “saviors of the earth” could care less if their solutions destroy the planet or not. They are grandstanding, pure and simple, and if it means killing many species of animals and destroying the landscapes with these useless tax breaks for the greedy, so be it. After all, it’s about “feeling important”, not really saving the planet. If only we could find a way to redirect “feeling important” and tax breaks for the greedy (Buffet will take any tax break, I’m sure), maybe we could actually save the planet from this destruction.
“could care less ”
Could NOT care less.
Gratis
Who appointed you school marm?
Knock it off Matt. Common mistake and we all the know the meaning.
Yes, but look at all the money he and Hollywood saved in taxes by contributing to this fund.
The IRS needs to clamp down on these useless foundations and eliminate the tax deductions.
Lets see how much they donate if it’s not tax deductible.
Yes. It is not immediately obvious what he has done with this $100m of other people’s money. I guess it is the raising of money which is considered the main thing. But how much climate has he changed in the 20 years since he started the project?
Most the “fighting climate change” that I see is wealthy and comfortably-off activists campaigning to raise energy prices and impoverish other people generally across the globe.
$100m is just enough to cover the alcohol, food, accommodation and travel bills after some of these climate conferences.
Cinic.
Yet so correct!
Uhhh . . . cynic?
Foundations are great as cost-shifting vehicles: Expenses [private jets anyone?] which should be paid privately are shifted to the tax-exempt, donation funded, foundation. Patrick may be cynical but so he should be.
This $100 million from Leonardo DiCaprio is just going to waste, as CAGW is a fictional scare based on fake science and adjusted data. The money could have done inestimable good if it was spent on disease control in Africa or something similar. Instead the money will be lining the pocket of rich scamsters and crooks. What a tragedy!
So True Nicholas. Here is a better idea. Hollywood producers should make more movies and documentaries about the tragic consequences of deficit spending. Then Dicraprio can start campaigning for a) a Balanced budget law requiring the federal government to spend no more than they take in from tax revenue each year and b) Hold annual fundraisers for his “Pay down the National Debt Foundation” so that all his virtue signalling, overpaid actor friends can raise Hundreds of Millions to actually do something constructive.
I get the feeling that no matter how much money is thrown down the “global climate change” rathole, it is never enough. It is an “almost infinite” sewer of a far-left political control agenda. The problem with the climate prediction claims is there is no way to test the theories. The crazy left looks at human produced carbon as the control knob of climate. First of all, humans do not produce carbon – it is an “element” required for all life. All other variables such as solar and galactic influences are rejected as irrelevant. We all like a clean environment but that is only achieved by the richest and most advanced societies. Advanced technology makes life more livable but it does not provide the control knob of climate. Climate and cleanliness are not synonyms.
C is an element… well stated.
Somehow these ‘alchemist wizards’ have found a way to turn bull$hit into tax free slush funds.
Ah yes … the alchemy of turning (C)arbon into (Au)old …
With their medieval wizardry
They’ve turned C into C-notes.
The total, ~ >$100M, apparently has not all been allocated to climate change.
The part that has, has been wasted. The “opportunity costs” are unknown.
Likely some good has been done with the rest.
I wonder if there is a sensible audit?
I’ll happily bet my hard earned money that there is no audit, or even accounting, of what the results of their various efforts have achieved. It’s just a self promotion gimmick, and it wasn’t his money. He just set up the charity, it was, as usual, somebody else’s money.
Someone elses money, yes but it was not MY money. I assume the people and companies freely parted with it, an important distinction.
I admit to some internal conflict. Money chasing stupid is grating, but at least it wasn’t my money. I hope. Does anyone know if any taxpayer dollars went down this particular rat-hole?
There’s always a chance that with that much money moving around, some good was done, however accidental.
Tax exemptions would be it, although, just because you don’t like the ’cause’ does not mean they should be treated differently.
The fact that such “charities”, of all stripes, force individuals to subsidize groups and causes they find distasteful is the strongest argument of all that the deduction for charities needs to be ended, for all of them.
Whoa, whoa!!
IF you are an American resident and taxpayer, then most certainly YOUR money was thrown down this rat-hole by Leo DiC and his worthless foundation
The foundation is a tax-dodge and, thus, the money lathered about produces no tax revenue. Nonetheless, the US gummint continues to deliver “services” nationwide that require funds that will be made up from other sources – – yeah, collections from taxpayers and corporations who actually engage in profit-making enterprises.
I believe the entire notion of “not-for-profit tax-exempt” corporations needs to be thrown out wholesale. They have become vehicles for wealthy donors to dodge tax collections, shelter large scale operations from taxes, and provide lavish salaries and perks for corporate execs all because they are “doing good works”. Many of them, like the LDC foundation, are thinly disguised leftist support groups that pay each other and all promote political activism (ahem – “strictly prohibited” for 501 c3 tax exempt corporations – yeah, right!)
To quote Pres 44 (The Exalted BHO), those non-profit execs “didn’t create that!” They got the tax benefits on the backs of all the taxpayers of the nation
I’d be glad to see Congress abolish all tax-exempt entities (including churches) or, at the least, collect a minimum 15% of total gross revenue. And require annual audits of finances.
For Foundations, I believe, they must spend at least 5% on the cause. Usually, family members sit on the board with healthy salaries. Numerous trips are paid by the foundation.
Wealthy people have foundations.
… to avoid paying taxes
This is the same Di Crapio that flew across the Atlantic in a private plane to accept a Global warming award. And then flew back the next day. What a colossal wanker.
… and probably paid for with the (his) Foundation money. Free vacations, as long as there is a remote nexus to the Foundation.
What a colossal wanker.
Email lands on a Nigerian official’s computer: “I am an American actor with a lot of money, and if you just pay my shipping costs I will give you $100 million..”
Fighting climate change, I will have $1000 at even money that climate change wins.
No takers here at those odds Ve2!
Proving once again there’s a . . .
Wonder how many young people he could have put through college with that?
Oh yes, with 100M we would have so many brainwashed minds more to twist our reality.
So sad…
Live like Leo: private jets, big yachts, multiple houses. Let others do the cutting back.
You forgot his contribution to Scientology…
Isn´t that about the same thing?
Leo, I planted a spruce tree and a few acorns. Please send me $10,000 for fighting climate change.
Follow the money not the climate. This is nothing more than a tax shelter that Leo and friends will use to derive benefits and expenses from while doing a nominal amount for “charity” just to keep up appearances.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90209242/this-popular-form-of-charity-might-just-be-a-tax-shelter-for-the-1
He uses his Prius to get to his private jet.
He flew to Alberta in his private jet to protest the oil industry.
100 million in 20 years is impressive. Unfortunately, it is a drop in the bucket. That is only 1/10 of what Obama paid into the Green Fund, and only 1/1000 of the Green Fund’s *annual* goal by 2020! For the wealthy crowd he runs with, all this amounts to is cheap virtue signaling.
Let me correct that for you.
That is only 1/10 of the US Tax Payer’s cash that Obama paid into the Green Fund
Let me correct that for you.
That is only 1/10 of our grandchildren’s taxpayer cash that Obama transferred into the pockets of his political cronies. You know, the same grandchildren Obama is supposed to be “saving” from an “angry” plane to…
*sigh* … planet …
Post Christmas comas are almost as debilitating as post Thanksgivings ones.
I have become more susceptible to the dreaded food coma with my advancing age… but the Christmas prime rib was worth it! And, no, I do not feel one twinge of guilt for not having a vegan Christmas to “save” the planet from its livestock burden.
Not that impressive. That’s only 5 million a year. The gofundme for the border wall has raised over $17M in just 9 days, and that’s over the Christmas holiday when a large number of Americans are not on their computers. So spare us the fake adulation.
$100 million in 20 years is just under $14,000 per day. Donations for Trumps wall are just under $2,000,000 per day. Looks like building the wall is more important than fighting fake climate change.
But what would the Gliterathsy do without there big events. They all live it up while poor families in places such as Africa still have to use Cow Dung to cook over.
But of course its the thought that counts to such people, not the reality of actually living in the real world.
MJE
It would be different if his ‘earnings’ were from a worthwhile occupation like advancing medical science, but his tour de force is imitating the characters from fictions. Even then , he did not ‘earn’ his money, he simply sucked on the teat of an existing money flow system that grabs dollars from impressionable people and innocent children who buy movie tickets or whatever.
People get rich quickly by taking money from large numbers of poorer people. Is that some kind of achievement? Seems more like theft to me.
Then, to pump money into an imaginary threat like global warming when no scientist has shown it a valid concept, is just plain stupid. There are many causes needing funds however acquired, other than global warming scares.
Geoff.
What a waste. How many homes could have been built, wells could have been dug, people could have been fed with all that wealth?
It is interesting to see what good articles appear here and in addition only the enemies of mankind participate in the comment. It is very likely that the bacteria will survive the disaster, but it is also not certain that there will be life on Venus after the climate change.
You know, it makes one to know one?
Isn´t it great to know that even you are allowed to comment here?
ya mug, i doubt theres life on venus now so wtf are you blathering on about?
climate changes some life forms depart /some appear
little new under the sun
Well, unless we can increase the CO2 content to ~95% *AND* increase it’s mass to ~90 times that of Earth *AND* move it a bit closer to the Sun this rock we live on will never be a Venus, until the Sun starts to consume the inner planets. Got a while before that starts to happen though.
Not to mention slow down our planet’s rotation so one new Earth day equals 243 old ones.
Anyone who doesn’t worship at the same alter as you do is an enemy of mankind.
Next come the death camps for unbelievers.
You forgot your meds today.
Another product of bottom expectations for education coupled with trollops reading hate websites based on even lower education standards.
Some facts for that empty void you carry.
Venus:
* Average distance of 67,108,088 miles (108 million kilometers) from the sun.
* Venus’s atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide, 3.5% nitrogen, 0.015% sulphur dioxide, 0.01% water vapour and 0.007% argon.
* Venus’s lowest two levels of atmosphere reach 100 km altitude.
* Venus’s solar incoming radiation is 2,601.3 W/m².
* Venus’s diurnal rotation period is 117 Earth days.
* The average atmospheric surface pressure on Venus is about 90 times the average atmospheric surface pressure on Earth (almost as much pressure as you would experience at a depth of a kilometre in the Earth’s oceans).
Earth:
* Earth’s average distance from the sun is 93,205,678
miles.
Earth’s 93,205,678 miles minus Venus’s 67,108,088 miles is 26,097,590 miles where Venus is 38.6% closer to the sun.
Newton’s Inverse Square Law governs radiation strength where Solar Irradiance = I/D².
That is, Venus receives substantially stronger sunlight for very long periods of times.
* Earth’s total atmosphere is approximately 120 kilometers (74 miles). That is, Earth’s total atmosphere is roughly the altitude of Venus’s lowest two levels of atmosphere.
Much stronger Solar irradiance, Venus’s very slow rotation cycle coupled with the sheer weight of Venus’s atmosphere is why Venus’s average temperature is over 427*deg;C! Hot enough to melt lead!
Let us know when your pathetic echo chamber pals discover life where lead is molten.
http://thumbnails.illustrationsource.com/huge.101.506600.JPG
Venus?! LMFAO Earth didn’t turn into “Venus” with seven THOUSAND ppm CO2, 400 ppm (or 500ppm, or 600ppm) isn’t going to turn it into Venus, either.
LDC must be so proud of his distribution of wealth £100 million in what 20 years.
Just for balance consider the latest COP 24 gathering in Poland. 22,000 delegates and 9,000 support staff and journalists there for two weeks, junketing.
If we allow each of them just $5000 to cover their flights and accommodation and subsistence over that two weeks, we get something north of $150 million.
So LDC manages to input cash over twenty years, and the climate alarmists spent the lot and more in less than two weeks.
Maybe someone should tall him, he is wasting his time and money.
“Leonardo was recently honoured at the charity’s 20th anniversary event – a gala that was attended by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna and Ellen DeGeneres.”
Interesting that we are supposed to be in awe of these parasites whose manifest abilities are confined to lifting heavy weights and putting them down again, singing a bit and talking a lot.
Yet there are people out there slogging through muck clearing drains and people delivering babies; People working for years to find cures for our most insidious deseases; people nursing ebola victims. A lot of very dedicated people.
So we are supposed to cheer because a few thespians hand around their excess wealth among themselves to signal how virtuous they are and then spend it on vanity projects of questionable value.
Not questionable; of NO VALUE WHATSOEVER.
Do I detect a hint of jealousy here? These are highly successful people who are able to contribute large amounts of their own personal wealth to a cause they strongly believe in. What they choose to do with their hard-earned money is their choice … US sceptics can contribute their’s to the Cato Institute but who gives a damn – and they would just be lining the pockets of the Koch brothers even more.
I would be far more impressed if Leo did NOT publicize it and used it quietly, behind the scenes, to provide polio vaccinations and mosquito nets and hand pumps for water to people who need these things.
This public atta-boy stuff is childish.
Climate Change is the lowest priority for the world, according to the UN’s surveys.
This money has been lost to the world’s top priorities.
The opportunity costs of environmentalism can be measured in the deaths of the world’s poor.
He is free to spend his money as he pleases. At least he is not asking government to spend my money on a project that will just be another shovel ready job for academics.
oh I dunno bout that, Id say hes getting govt funding n tax breaks on all the greenschemes hes got fingers in
just like the goracle does
this award is just social grandstanding for feelgoodies
It’s not technically HIS money, it’s other people’s money that he got them to commit. Along the way he can charge lots of expenses for public appearances to the fund. So really another acting gig for Leo.
DiCaprio thinks he can buy his way out of hypocrisy.