Posted on 01/19/2016 11:53:29 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Fresh off his Golden Globe win, Leonardo DiCaprio drew ooohs, ahhs and smiles from a crowd as he was honored for his work against the climate crisis at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Then he ripped into Big Oil.
The Hollywood star of "The Revenant" traded the North American snows for white Alpine slopes at a ceremony Tuesday where he announced his foundation was donating another $15 million to environmental projects, and pleaded with business leaders and other notables on hand to help battle climate change.
"We simply cannot allow the corporate greed of the coal, oil and gas industries to determine the future of humanity," DiCaprio said to polite applause. "Those entities with a financial interest in preserving this destructive system have denied and even covered up the evidence of our changing climate."
"Enough is enough. You know better. The world knows better. History will place the blame for this devastation squarely at their feet."
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Did DiCaprio fly there in his private jet?
So, Leo crossed the Atlantic by canoe, right??
DiCaprio comes very close to accusing Big Oil of engineering Lady Gaga’s Best Actress Golden Globe award in this speech.
Based upon his statement above I shall assume he heats his home with the firewood he harvests and travels by bicycle on land and rowboat by sea. For it is obviously the greed of coal, oil, and gas is something he has no part of, correct?
Do these people even listen to themselves? Do they grasp how devoid of reason they are? Are the that blinded by the environmental religion?
This idiot dumped his main squeeze because she did not believe in global warming. He better be glad he became an actor because he couldn’t get a job mowing lawns.
Money can buy an awful lot of stupidity.
So Leo, you’re a good liberal and all, you’re “down with the stuggle”, so are you going to show solidarity with your black brothers and boycott the Oscars?
Come on, Leo, be a good liberal.
And you charge how much to get into a movie???
How about ripping 'big popcorn' for price gouging?
This is one old oilfield hand who will just keep his money and maybe watch yer movie when it hits teevee.
And not that good of an actor. IMO
:: Confab of Business Leaders ::
Ummmmm...Lenny is a “Business Leader”?
Or, does he just say the words someone else has written for him?
Seems like that dust-up with that bear in his last movie must have invoked some brain damage.
Actually Mr Decapitated flies commercial first class rather than a private jet.
I don’t like the guy but he does try to be consistent
Sigh......all this time I thought the sun was in charge, now I find out it’s big oil that is controlling the weather. Thank you Leo for setting me straight.
Unbelievable!
Leo sure is smart for a high school dropout with a GED.
8 >D
Of course...that's why oil prices are dropping like a rock! smh
He was followed by a large polar bear.
Big question, why should we publish and listen to the words of an actor? One problem in our society being the giving of weight to the pronouncements of trivial people; i.e. actors, negro community organizers, illegal aliens, weird women and college students.
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