DiCaprio: “I have a foundation for 20 years. I have to go to Glasgow. I got to see world leaders make some pretty big commitments, but just like in this movie, there’s a ticking clock. I think there is a global sense of anxiety that the powers that be, the private sector, the governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine year window.” … “Our governments, the governments of the world, must work together as a community species and we must evolve as a species to address this problem.”
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By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
January 19, 2022
Excerpt:
In an interview with dead line, DiCaprio spoke about his career as an actor and environmental activist, since many already know that one of his great concerns is the future of the planet, as he announced in his Oscar acceptance speech in 2016, after winning in the category Best Actor for Revenant.
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DiCaprio: “I have had two great passions in my life. That has been taking action, and protecting the natural world and spreading the message about the climate crisis. I have a foundation for 20 years. I have to go to Glasgow. I got to see world leaders make some pretty big commitments, but just like in this movie, there’s a ticking clock. I think there is a global sense of anxiety that the powers that be, the private sector, the governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine year window.”
“And there was also, you know, a period of time where people and consumers were forced to recycle and buy hybrid cars and make changes in their own lives, which is incredibly important. But when you really start to break this down, there are 100 companies that produce 70 percent of the world’s emissions. There are massive industries that are polluting our atmosphere, and the private sector needs to step up. Our governments, the governments of the world, must work together as a community species and we must evolve as a species to address this problem.”
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Related:
Climate Tipping Points date back to at least 1864
“As early as 1864 George Perkins Marsh, sometimes said to be the father of American ecology, warned that the earth was ‘fast becoming an unfit home for its “noblest inhabitant,”’ and that unless men changed their ways it would be reduced ‘to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.’” —MIT professor Leo Marx
Earth “Serially Doomed”
Perhaps the best summary of the tipping-point phenomenon comes from UK scientist Philip Stott. “In essence, the Earth has been given a 10-year survival warning regularly for the last fifty or so years. We have been serially doomed,” Stott explained. “Our post-modern period of climate change angst can probably be traced back to the late-1960s, if not earlier. By 1973, and the ‘global cooling’ scare, it was in full swing, with predictions of the imminent collapse of the world within ten to twenty years, exacerbated by the impacts of a nuclear winter.”
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When Leo finishes high school we can talk.
I suppose he is unaware that the 10 year window to the year 2000 already passed 20 years ago without the sky falling.
This constant goalpost moving is really getting old. For anyone that has been paying attention this argument his argument lost its power in the nineties.
Let’s see…
In 9 years, both the PDO and AMO will have been in their respective 30-year ocean cool cycles for a number of years, so it’s highly likely a 30+ year cooling trend will have emerged, and observed global anomalies will be 5+ standard deviations below CMIP 6 climate model mean projections…
Oh,, the humanity…
We’ll also likely be in the 1st term of the DeSantis presidency after Trump finishes his second term in 2028.
My family found the latest de Caprio movie to be quite entertaining as a parody of current events. Faced with what might be a serious threat to civilization, you can trust the politicians to be as effective as they have been in “solving” the COVID and CAGW “crises”. And the “science experts” with their “mining robots” were every bit as successful as the bird choppers and sun catchers on the one hand and the masks and jabs on the other. By the end of the movie, the audience should be convinced that we really deserve what’s coming.
I didn’t think it was about CC, in fact CC was avoided….it was about “Don’t Look Up” to our celebrity heroes and politicians who are in it for the money and votes. The asteroid was a much better plot device than CC on which to develop their theme. Probably will be nominated for about 4 Oscars.
It seems to me that Leo is promoting Leo and his movies, and at the same time he scores some eco-woke points.
So no more flying in private jets for Leo? NO? I did not think so. Dang!
Come on…Leo is not on his private jet all the time…he spends some on his yacht. Shut down the oil industry? How about the movie industry?…it does nothing but produce propaganda and pollutants….shut it down.
Computer created animation is getting better every year. It won’t be too many more years before actors become obsolete. I can’t wait.
Pretty certain modern civilization could survive without professional entertainment, Hollywood, NBA, NFL…
But not without petroleum
Twat or idiot, it’s hard to say.
Why choose?
Tell Leonardo to go buy a condo in Reykjavik and chill out.
DiCaprio has 9 years left before he has to date someone over 29
Wait, who should I believe? Didn’t AOC say we have 12 years left?
That was 3 years ago.
It’s mighty crowded there in the Last Chance Saloon, pardner…
Suppose he is right, how could he possibly know? If there is convincing evidence why not present it? Is it wise to consider alternatives for the carbon economy ? Probably. Is there cause for alarm? Hardly.
Is he trying out for the role of Algore?
DiCraprio has been learning under Greta. No wonder he is so limited.
“DiCraprio has been learning under Greta.”
You can get arrested for that in some countries.
With their “combined” intelligence, they are both ‘screwed’.
I notice he’s going on about ‘pollution’ not ‘global warming’. Perhaps he’s wising up.
Trust me, it’s a Groundhog Day clock — it will never go away.
After what most of us have been experiencing this winter, I think we all might be in favor of a little global warming.
Leo’s problem was typical in Hollywood.
He got very rich and famous at a very young age, and was quickly seduced by the typical Hollywood out-of-control spoiled brat thing. (It gets so bad, that his party boy “p***y posse” image even becomes a running gag in Doonesbury) While he thinks he’s cool and it might appeal to his adolescent fan base, it’s shallow and cringe worthy to any adult.
Then one day he wakes up and realizes that the p***y posse image is incredibly shallow and silly, and can’t go on forever. If he want’s to have any viable future in Hollywood and be taken seriously as an actor and adult, he’s gotta do something to erase, or at least overshadow this.
So he figures out (or is coached by someone smarter) that he needs a “cause” so he can look “deep”, “intellectual”, and “concerned” like he thinks real adults are. (Or such as they are in superficial Hollywood) Since he’s in the “popularity” business, whatever cause he picks has to be Progressive, since Progressive causes are superficially popular, easy, and demand little in terms of intellect, personal responsibility or personal sacrifice, which he has little taste for or concept of.
Typical Hollywood cause favorites over the last 40 years or so like no nukes, the homeless, family farmers, war, or starving women and children in Africa have been done to death. Besides, homeless people are smelly and scary, and the party scene in Africa really sucks. But by the late ’90s, “global warming” is fresh and big. And it allows people with absolutely zero intellectual or moral credibility to garner instant superiority as long as you buy plenty of the newly invented “carbon credits” to green-wash your conspicuous consumption lifestyle sins away.
So he makes friends with a pliant Al Gore who will hang with anyone cooler than he is, which is pretty much anybody. He uses some of his money and Hollywood clout to make a bunch of eco-propaganda films that are critically acclaimed but nobody ever actually sits through. He gets to be taken seriously in Hollywood and gets to continue with his 1%er party lifestyle, which includes owning private islands & resorts at far away places and private jets to and from and an endless parade of young women entertained on superyachts while admonishing the rest of American for owning SUVs. Win-win. Except now, he’s now a serious “adult” and no longer has to feel guilty about being an entitled spoiled rich celebrity.
Good summary.
I personally lament the disappearance of the 1970s Miss World what would you wish fo?: “World Peace” response.
I have yet to ascertain what it is we are supposed to be celebrating.
Speaking about private islands, Di Caprio is doing a development project on a low-lying one in the Caribbean. A big sea level rise would destroy his investment, but … (see down the page at https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/leonardo-dicaprio-house )
DeCaprio is a prime example of elite wokeism. They know what is best for the rest of us and because they have LOTS of money to give themselves a soap box to stand on, they constantly tell us what we have to do. What they do is immaterial, because they are the “deciderers” (compliments of George W. Bush). It is the ultimate of do what I say, not as I do. Don’t pay attention to the yacht or private jet that I travel around in (Al the “Bore” Gore is famous for that). Just pay attention to the artificial story line I’ve given you to march through the streets with. And in the meantime, they are making money hand over fist!
They always give themselves enough of a time frame for people to fuss over and by the time the dreaded end of the world date passes, they jinn up another 9 or 10 years to noisily kick the can down the road with and show just how woke and virtue signaling they are.
NOT!
I wish people had an attention span longer than a rabbit of five minutes to really see what is going on. Meanwhile the sheep meander and loudly bleat with each new danger that they’ve been spoon fed to fuss about.
Another climate scientist with the usual lack of qualifications or brainpower.
As a graduate of that institute founded in 1869, I find it improbable that MIT had any professors in 1864.
Ahhhh, that was MIT Prof. Leo Marx, cite unknown, commenting on a statement made by George Marsh in 1864. And anyway, MIT’s founding date is 1861. We Stevens alumni sometimes shake our heads regarding our brothers to the north.
Poor Leo with his GED. Didn’t learn to count properly.
DiCaprio: “I have had two great passions in my life.”
“That has been taking action,” That’s 1
“and protecting the natural world” There’s 2
“and spreading the message about the climate crisis.” And that makes 3.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Of course he’s in a hurry. If he waits too long, his latest girlfriend will be too old for him. He might have a bit more credibility if he stopped taking private jets to COP conferences.
So, if you have a foundation and made a movie, you suddenly become expert on climate?
On “CO2”, its not the problem, plants inhale “CO2”, exhale oxygen (we need this stuff). I pump tons of “CO2” into my green houses to make those tomatoes (and other foods) you like to eat from the grocery store. Enjoy your veggies and find a real savior if you need one.
When pretty people become successful in the performance arts, folks think they’re experts in fields they know nothing about.
Why is that?
Some folks will believe anything you tell them, especially if you have lots of money.