Leonardo DiCaprio spotlights urgency of climate crisis in new film (only 11.57 years left)

CNN ^ | 6/11/19 | Brian Lowry

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

If there's any area where star power seems to be put to the most effective use, it's the documentary, where attaching names like Leonardo DiCaprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger helps projects that might evaporate into the ether get on the media's radar.

DiCaprio weighs in this week with "Ice on Fire," a better-than-most film on the topic that gets beyond the dire warnings to contemplating what can actually be done to help turn, or at least significantly curb, the tide.

For his part, Schwarzenegger plays the same role on "Wonders of the Sea," a project exploring the oceans made in conjunction with Jean-Michel Cousteau, the seafaring explorer and son of the legendary Jacques Cousteau.

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A nagging challenge for climate change has been not only the denialism among key quadrants of the political class but difficulty getting the public to focus on the problem. Celebrities, in that regard, are a way of cutting through the clutter, but not without the baggage of images that include privileged lives and private jets.

They forgot all about the mansions -

Leonardo DiCaprio Owns How Many Homes?! A Startling Peek at His Property Portfolio

https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/leonardo-dicaprio-homes-real-estate/

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https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/leonardo-dicaprio-homes-real-estate/

[allendale]

What sort of man would identify with the acting or politics of Leonardo DiCaprio? Suspect any such man is probably homosexual.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Let me know when he sells his private jet.

[Da Coyote]

ADA - Another dumb*ss actor.

No one cares.

[gaijin]

[BuffaloJack]

If humans are so terrible for the climate, how did the Sahara turn from grasslands and forest to desert just 6000 years ago? There weren’t any cars, steel plants, coal burning electric generators, factories or such.

[airborne]

Actors and athletes have dedicated their lives to their profession from an early age.

So they have not spent enough time educating themselves in areas that develops common sense.

That’s why I never listen to actors or athletes.

[bray]

The chicks dig Global Warming.

[Travis McGee]

[SkyDancer]

Goal post keeps getting pushed. Didn’t AlGore say 2005 was it?

[OldNewYork]

Carbon denial is hate speech.

[tbw2]

Liberals have cried wolf, the world is ending in ten to twelve years, for decades.

U.N. predicts disaster if global warming not checked - June 29 1989, Peter Spielman
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

[Does so]

With this chilliest of May and June in New England, I hope they’re right!

[wally_bert]

I don’t either.

[jonascord]

It's not nice to continue the Countdown to our Doom.

Funny, but not nice.

[ronnie raygun]

Check his investments, there is a reason for his stupidity. How is he any different than the millionaire socialist jew from Vermont? He is not

[neverevergiveup]

The irony is that all these people are Democrats, say they are for the ‘little person’, and probably nominally support AOC’s socialism.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Coolest June in Eastern Oklahoma I can ever remember from the 1950s till now. It should be around 98 degrees with 70 % humidity but it is only 68 degrees right now.

Maybe that COMING ICE AGE predicted in the 1970s is finally on it’s way!

[Libloather]

...the Countdown to our Doom.

In the last week, I'm paying every bill with a check that'll bounce.