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Leonardo DiCaprio says China can be 'climate change hero'
Associated Press ^ | Mar. 20, 2016 6:11 AM EDT | Louise Watt

Posted on 03/20/2016 10:14:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Leonardo DiCaprio praised China’s work to combat climate change on a trip to Beijing on Sunday, and said he believes the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases could be “the hero of the environmental movement.”

The actor and environmentalist, who called for action to combat climate change during his Oscar acceptance speech last month, praised China’s shift toward renewable forms of energy to lower carbon emissions. […]

“I really think that China can be the hero of the environmental movement, they can be the hero of the climate change movement,” he said. “They have an opportunity to change the world and I have all the confidence in the world that that is their intention.” …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; TV/Movies; Weather
KEYWORDS: china; climatechange; climatechangehoax; doomage; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; leonardodicaprio; redchina; usefulidiot; worldcommunism
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe DiCaprio and Obama can move to China to participate in their efforts to stop global warming,


21 posted on 03/20/2016 10:48:00 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: kiryandil

Here’s more about that “environmentalist” Di Caprio

http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/05/07/leonardo-dicaprio-environmental-hypocrite/


22 posted on 03/20/2016 10:49:27 PM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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To: kiryandil

You forget his many multi room mansions, private planes, chauffeured giant SUV limos not to mention the energy of a small city it takes to make one of many movies that he’s usually incredibly miscast in.


23 posted on 03/20/2016 10:50:18 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: kiryandil

If all that money only makes you a blind stupid fool, leave me out.


24 posted on 03/20/2016 10:56:12 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Olog-hai

Leo hit on my cousin at a party once. She was a model for Jessica Mcclintock wedding dresses. I think he kind of creeped her out.


25 posted on 03/20/2016 11:00:27 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; shibumi
You forget his many multi room mansions, private planes, chauffeured giant SUV limos not to mention the energy of a small city it takes to make one of many movies that he’s usually incredibly miscast in.

I'm still p*ssed that "it" may have been cast as Nicholai Hel in Satori.

The REAL Nicholai Hel would have "pencilled" DiCaprio in for the presumption.

26 posted on 03/20/2016 11:15:49 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chicago, March 2016: The Delphi Technique in action...)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh great. Who wants a Climate “Made in China”?


27 posted on 03/20/2016 11:17:53 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Olog-hai

Silly. They tow it with the helicopters...


28 posted on 03/20/2016 11:18:40 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Olog-hai

Smoking the good stuff on his super-yacht i see.
Hope the hot models aren’t partaking...


29 posted on 03/20/2016 11:19:44 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s all about the money folks.


30 posted on 03/20/2016 11:28:08 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: jessduntno

Delusional


31 posted on 03/20/2016 11:29:27 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: kiryandil

This is disturbing on several levels.

First that a vapid dolt like DiCaprio could ever possibly be capable of capturing the subtlety of Hel.

Second that this author would presume to prequel Trevanian’s masterpiece. I notice he waited until five years after Trevanian’s death to write it. The material in the novel’s synopsis is fully covered and explained in “Shibumi”. There is no need for another book.

Third, Trevanian specifically stated in the footnotes to “Shibumi” that he did not wish to have either the character or the story put into movie format. He even expressed regret that “The Eiger Sanction” movie had been made, mourning the death of a stunt man mountain climber during filming and using that same adjective “vapid” to describe the finished work.

Trevanian’s writing is exhaustive in detail and rich in nuance. The likelihood of Hollywood being able to do his characters justice is Zero.


32 posted on 03/20/2016 11:39:35 PM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: Olog-hai
My brother-in-law has to travel to China for work. He told me that he and all of his co-workers have bronchial problems.

It would be nice if China would at least clean up their own air.

Don't need no climate change crapolla. They just a stern self-recognition that they are horrible stewards of their own air and land.

33 posted on 03/21/2016 12:14:56 AM PDT by Slyfox (Donald Trump's First Principle is the Art of the Deal)
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To: Olog-hai
“I really think that China can be the hero of the environmental movement, they can be the hero of the climate change movement,” he said. “They have an opportunity to change the world and I have all the confidence in the world that that is their intention.” …

So I guess his 'next' big project is to do a film in China? Maybe play a young Mao or something? Marco Polo?

He has as much on the noggin ball as Sean Penn, it seems.

34 posted on 03/21/2016 2:44:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Olog-hai

Like the American Dad episode, it is probably pulled along by four chained and shackled whales.


35 posted on 03/21/2016 2:45:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Olog-hai
He has an odd definition of the word,"hero"

36 posted on 03/21/2016 3:04:45 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: kiryandil

37 posted on 03/21/2016 4:08:14 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: stocksthatgoup

I’m torn between wanting to see Hollywood go out of business, or keeping hilarious dolts like Leo employed there. It would be way more entertaining if somebody (Clint Eastwood ?), would take this clown down a few pegs.


38 posted on 03/21/2016 4:53:44 AM PDT by Macky Avelli
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To: Olog-hai

Deeply confused young man.


39 posted on 03/21/2016 5:30:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Olog-hai

He’s probably seen how lucrative this cause has been for Al Gore and decided he’ll cash in, too

I’m willing to bet if you spoke to Leonardo DiCaprio in private and off the record and asked him if he really believed in this he’d probably at least express some doubt


40 posted on 03/21/2016 8:13:36 AM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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