Leo DiCaprio lectures UN on climate change

[donnay]

Another actor on my boycott list. :rolleyes:




'You can either make history or be vilified by it': Leo DiCaprio lectures UN on climate change (but no mention of his four homes, private jets and renting the FIFTH biggest yacht in the world from an OIL billionaire)

By Michael Zennie

Leonardo DiCaprio has positioned himself as one of the highest-profile climate change activists in the world
He told the United Nations today: 'You can make history ...or be vilified by it'
DiCaprio, worth an estimated $220million, flew to France twice, London, Tokyo and several trips between New York and Los Angeles
The A-list star drives a Toyota Prius and an electric car and bought an eco-friendly apartment building in New York
However, even if he took only commercial flights his plane travel spewed 40million metric tons of carbon into the air


With his speech in front of the United Nations today, Leonardo DiCaprio cemented his reputation as one of the world's highest-profile activists on climate change.

'You can make history ...or be vilified by it,' he told world leaders.

After marching with 400,000 others on the streets of New York this weekend to demand tough regulations to cut the amount of CO2 being pumped into the air, DiCaprio opened a UN climate change summit by urging world leaders to crack down on polluters and 'put a price tag on carbon emissions.'

But the 39-year-old Hollywood star's own jetset lifestyle reveals a double-standard on the issue of climate change.

In his speech to the UN, he said: 'This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make.'

MailOnline can report that DiCaprio took at least 20 trips across the nation and around the world this year alone - including numerous flights from New York to Los Angeles and back, a ski vacation to the French Alps, another vacation to the French Riveria, flights to London and Tokoyo to promote his film Wolf of Wall Street, two trips to Miami and a private jet to Brazil to watch the World Cup.


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[mad cow]

They need to invent a new word,hypocrite just doesn't cover it.

The world's fattest Lady telling some 110 pound gal that she would have to cut her calories or suffer criminal,civil and financial penalties from laws coercing her to slim down pales in comparison to Leonardo DiCaprio telling me that I have to reduce my 'carbon footprint' or suffer criminal,civil and financial penalties if I don't.

http://www.bornrich.com/leonardo-dicaprio.html

[rpfocus]

Bwahaha DiCaprio and Matt Damon are the biggest blowhards around. Actor Activists suck. They should be sentenced to a lifetime of flying coach.

[donnay]

Bwahaha DiCaprio and Matt Damon are the biggest blowhards around. Actor Activists suck. They should be sentenced to a lifetime of flying coach.

Guess he didn't learn anything from the role he played in the Titanic. <s>

[DamianTV]

This is like having Cookie Monster lecture Congress on Obesity that results from overconsumption of Cookies...

[green73]

Idiocracy is closer than we think.

[phill4paul]

Aherm....


West Coast warming linked to naturally occurring changes

Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human-caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming on land and in the sea along the West Coast of North America over the last century, a study has found.

The analysis challenges assumptions that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been a significant driver of the increase in temperatures observed over many decades in the ocean and along the coastline from Alaska to California.

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-pacific-warming-20140923-story.html

[donnay]

Aherm....



http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-pacific-warming-20140923-story.html

But...but...that is not what his script writers put in for his speech. Most of the Hollyweird actors are dumber than a box of rocks.

[phill4paul]

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[Origanalist]

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[HOLLYWOOD]

Yeah... waiting for Matt & Trey episode 'Planet Douchebags: Damon & DiCaprio'

[56ktarget]

Paulites: Stuck in a crazy world where 97% of scientists are part of the biggest conspiracy of all time.

[Dr.3D]

Paulites: Stuck in a crazy world where 97% of scientists are part of the biggest conspiracy of all time.
You forgot to put "government paid" in front of the word "scientists."

[Origanalist]

Paulites: Stuck in a crazy world where 97% of scientists are part of the biggest conspiracy of all time.

Careful, if you stay too long the crazy might wear off on you.

[pessimist]

Another actor on my boycott list. :rolleyes:

Do you honestly take celebrities seriously enough to actually boycott them for not subscribing to your ideology?

[HOLLYWOOD]

Paulites: Stuck in a crazy world where 97% of scientists are part of the biggest conspiracy of all time. Socialist... the useful idiots of the guile Marxists.


You forgot to put "government paid" in front of the word "scientists."Yeah, that always appears to be left out of the equation of the financial motives to steal from anyone.

[squarepusher]

the yacht he was using

http://nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dicapriotopaz.jpg?w=720&h=480&crop=1

[VIDEODROME]

A cleaner environment and cleaner energy sounds good to me. I'm sure DiCaprio would happily participate in converting to more clean energy vehicles even including his yacht.


We need to put a pricetag on carbon emissions, and eliminate government subsidies for coal, gas, and oil companies. We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have been given in the name of a free-market economy, they don't deserve our tax dollars, they deserve our scrutiny. For the economy itself will die if our eco-systems collapse.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766871/Leonardo-DiCaprio-s-climate-change-hypocrisy-As-Hollywood-star-lectures-U-N-MailOnline-reveals-jetset-lifestyle-includes-19-flights-world-year-borrowing-mega-yacht-owned-oil-billionaire.html#ixzz3EIHuLmXv
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He does have a point here, even though I'm unsure about the price tag part, but why not withdraw government involvement in this part of the market? My only concern is he would like to see Government stay involved in the role distributing penalties for carbon.

IMO his real Fail here is he has all this wealth he could be using to bankroll energy research himself and bring something to the table besides a speech.

[56ktarget]

Paulite thinking:

Leo is a hypocrite for believing in global warming and having a yacht.
Ron Paul is not a hypocrite for taking social security but wanting to end it.

Try again.

[Brett85]

Paulite thinking:

Leo for believing in global warming and having a yacht.
Ron Paul is not a hypocrite for taking social security but wanting to end it.

Try again.

What exactly is hypocritical about getting your own money back from a system that you've paid into your entire life?

[VIDEODROME]

Paulite thinking:

Leo for believing in global warming and having a yacht.
Ron Paul is not a hypocrite for taking social security but wanting to end it.

Try again.

I'm not calling Leo a hypocrite. Much of his travel is an extension of his professional business life. He is right that we need to pursue clean energy.

However, I'm disappointed that he doesn't come to the table with something of more substance. He could form his own R&D group and bring innovations to us.

[mad cow]

I'm not calling Leo a hypocrite.

You have got to be kidding me.
I think that man made global warming is a bunch of horse crap,but I would accept the restrictions imposed by Leonardo if he said that nobody could put anymore CO2 in the atmosphere than he does per annum just to shut him up.
Saying that others (me) have to lower our 'carbon footprint' while he lives a lifestyle that puts more CO2 up there in a month than I have put up there in my lifetime is the dictionary definition of a hypocrite.

[Anti Federalist]

While underway, at least 200 gallons of diesel fuel an hour.



the yacht he was using

http://nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dicapriotopaz.jpg?w=720&h=480&crop=1

[mad cow]

While underway, at least 200 gallons of diesel fuel an hour.
I record every penny I spend on my computer since retiring and what I spent it on.

Since 01/01/2013,well over a year and a half ago,I have spent $650.14 on gas for my only mode of transportation,my 4WD V-8 full size Dodge pickup truck.
No planes,trains or busses or anything else whatsoever.

That wouldn't fuel Leonardo's yacht for an hour and he is going to bitch about my pickup???

[PRB]

You forgot to put "government paid" in front of the word "scientists."

97% are government paid? or 97% of all government paid agree?

[PRB]

While underway, at least 200 gallons of diesel fuel an hour.

So if Ron Paul was rich, we should stop taking him seriously? Having a yacht automatically makes you a liar or hypocrite?

[Anti Federalist]

Yes, not only is he going to bitch about it, he is going to use his position as a public figure to agitate government to pass laws to regulate or prohibit you from driving, replacing or modifying that truck.

Which, ultimately, means that enforcement will bring men with guns to deliver violence unto you for failure to comply.

People like 56ktarget will tell me that I'm being ridiculous and engaging in hyperbole, that "no cop is going to shoot you for environmental compliance".

And I would direct him to the thread that shows a cop shooting an unarmed man for what amounted to a seatbelt violation.

Copsuckers and statists: do not sit there and try to tell me where this will all head, this is the controller's wet dream, everything a human being does has carbon impact.

Thus NOTHING will be beyond the limit of the international regulators enforcement and scrutiny and surveillance.

Unless, of course, you're rich, well connected or have celebrity or "special" status. Like a cop. Or a movie star.

Cops are not going to stop driving 2 MPG tanks when they are looking to smash your walls, and movie stars are not giving up their yachts.





I record every penny I spend on my computer since retiring and what I spent it on.

Since 01/01/2013,well over a year and a half ago,I have spent $650.14 on gas for my only mode of transportation,my 4WD V-8 full size Dodge pickup truck.
No planes,trains or busses or anything else whatsoever.

That wouldn't fuel Leonardo's yacht for an hour and he is going to bitch about my pickup???

[PRB]

Copsuckers and statists: do not sit there and try to tell me where this will all head, this is the controller's wet dream, everything a human being does has carbon impact.


just like every state/government has potential to become force for evil and unjust laws, therefore the only consistent position is to be a complete anarchist, anything else is a road to statism. who cares if some governments are smaller than others? comparison is for hair splitters.

[Anti Federalist]

So if Ron Paul was rich, we should stop taking him seriously? Having a yacht automatically makes you a liar or hypocrite?

Ron Paul is rich.

"Rich" is relative.

By my metric he is quite rich.

No, having a yacht does not make one a liar or hypocrite.

Lecturing and hectoring government that they need to more tightly regulate people and restrict even more freedom, in the name of "environmentalism", while running around playing on a yacht that burns more fuel in a day than most people will burn in their cars in a year, is massively hypocritical.

[56ktarget]

Taking social security money while clamoring to end the welfare state is hypocritical.

[idiom]

Dude should stick to trains and super sailboats.

[phill4paul]

Taking social security money while clamoring to end the welfare state is hypocritical.

Ron pays more into social security than he receives from it. And his position is that individuals should be able to opt out of it, not simply end it. So you can quit your bitchin'.

[ChristianAnarchist]

I record every penny I spend on my computer since retiring and what I spent it on.

Since 01/01/2013,well over a year and a half ago,I have spent $650.14 on gas for my only mode of transportation,my 4WD V-8 full size Dodge pickup truck.
No planes,trains or busses or anything else whatsoever.

That wouldn't fuel Leonardo's yacht for an hour and he is going to bitch about my pickup???

Yer a terrist!! You probably have GUNS too! We need to "register" them. It's for your safety...

[donnay]

Do you honestly take celebrities seriously enough to actually boycott them for not subscribing to your ideology?

Yes because going to see his movies is giving him money that will inflate his ego. An ego that thinks he is better than you and I, and that YOU and I shouldn't be afforded liberties that he has.

[rolirn]

Arguments over global warming and terrorism…

Don’t get tricked into arguments over whether there is bad weather or bad human behavior in the world, because you won’t win. These problems do indeed exist. Stick to the main argument, against “solutions” offered by government that are self-defeating and anti-liberty. By pointing out the unintended consequences (externalities) of the government policy/regulation/aggression, it’s a pretty easy argument to win.

With AGW or “Climate Change”, you let your opponent elaborate in length to “prove” it exists, then merely refocus on their actual point; they want more government regulation into business. Besides pointing out violations of individual rights, also explain how increasing regulations on business also increases costs – and higher costs mean more energy usage, which means more pollution.

[PRB]

Arguments over global warming and terrorism…

Don’t get tricked into arguments over whether there is bad weather or bad human behavior in the world, because you won’t win. These problems do indeed exist. Stick to the main argument, against “solutions” offered by government that are self-defeating and anti-liberty. By pointing out the unintended consequences (externalities) of the government policy/regulation/aggression, it’s a pretty easy argument to win.

With AGW or “Climate Change”, you let your opponent elaborate in length to “prove” it exists, then merely refocus on their actual point; they want more government regulation into business. Besides pointing out violations of individual rights, also explain how increasing regulations on business also increases costs – and higher costs mean more energy usage, which means more pollution.

I've said a million times I don't want more government.

[enhanced_deficit]

yep, another scumbag to be boycotted.

[CPUd]

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[PRB]

Yes because going to see his movies is giving him money that will inflate his ego. An ego that thinks he is better than you and I, and that YOU and I shouldn't be afforded liberties that he has.

is there any good person in Hollywood? if so, I wanna see that list.

[devil21]

Just whipping up the lefties right before the election to take the attention off the warmongering of the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the WH. Same as that Harry Potter girl's UN speech about feminism the other day. Because....war on women and polar bears!

[HOLLYWOOD]

Just whipping up the lefties right before the election to take the attention off the warmongering of the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the WH. Same as that Harry Potter girl's UN speech about feminism the other day. Because....war on women and polar bears!Of Course... everything is planned, scripted, and controlled in today's Bread & Circuses comedy. The public speeches(canned/crafted) by all of the politicals and pundits this past week has been absolutely nutzoid to anyone to believe, even those with half a brain.

[devil21]

Of Course... everything is planned, scripted, and controlled in today's Bread & Circuses comedy. The public speeches(canned/crafted) by all of the politicals and pundits this past week has been absolutely nutzoid to anyone to believe, even those with half a brain.

Then people wonder why folks like me allege that most of what serves to expand government agendas are literally Hollywood created and produced stories. It's obvious now that Hollywood and DC are working very closely together. They're symbiotic. One feeds the other. I'm sure it's always been that way to an extent but I think it's ramped up significantly more in recent times. Or maybe I've just caught on and therefore notice it more.....

Is that the basis for your handle HOLLYWOOD?

[donnay]

Flashback:


An offer they couldn't refuse
The CIA is often credited with 'advice' on Hollywood films, but no one is truly sure about the extent of its shadowy involvement. Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham investigate

Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham
The Guardian, Thursday 13 November 2008


http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2008/09/30/bodyoflies460.jpg

Everyone who watches films knows about Hollywood's fascination with spies. From Hitchcock's postwar espionage thrillers, through cold war tales such as Torn Curtain, into the paranoid 1970s when the CIA came to be seen as an agency out of control in films such as Three Days of the Condor, and right to the present, with the Bourne trilogy and Ridley Scott's forthcoming Body of Lies, film-makers have always wanted to get in bed with spies. What's less widely known is how much the spies have wanted to get in bed with the film-makers. In fact, the story of the CIA's involvement in Hollywood is a tale of deception and subversion that would seem improbable if it were put on screen.

The model for this is the defence department's "open" but barely publicised relationship with Hollywood. The Pentagon, for decades, has offered film-makers advice, manpower and even hardware - including aircraft carriers and state-of-the-art helicopters. All it asks for in exchange is that the US armed forces are made to look good. So in a previous Scott film, Black Hawk Down, a character based on a real-life soldier who had also been a child rapist lost that part of his backstory when he came to the screen.

No matter how seemingly craven Hollywood's behaviour towards the US armed forces has seemed, it has at least happened within the public domain. That cannot be said for the CIA's dealings with the movie business. Not until 1996 did the CIA announce, with little fanfare, that it had established an Entertainment Liaison Office, which would collaborate in a strictly advisory capacity with film-makers. Heading up the office was Chase Brandon, who had served for 25 years in the agency's elite clandestine services division, as an undercover operations officer. A PR man he isn't, though he does have Hollywood connections: he's a cousin of Tommy Lee Jones.

But the past 12 years of semi-acknowledged collaboration were preceded by decades in which the CIA maintained a deep-rooted but invisible influence of Hollywood. How could it be otherwise? As the former CIA man Bob Baer - whose books on his time with the agency were the basis for Syriana - told us: "All these people that run studios - they go to Washington, they hang around with senators, they hang around with CIA directors, and everybody's on board."

Continued... (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/nov/14/thriller-ridley-scott)

[PRB]

Then people wonder why folks like me allege that most of what serves to expand government agendas are literally Hollywood created and produced stories. It's obvious now that Hollywood and DC are working very closely together. They're symbiotic. One feeds the other. I'm sure it's always been that way to an extent but I think it's ramped up significantly more in recent times. Or maybe I've just caught on and therefore notice it more.....

Is that the basis for your handle HOLLYWOOD?

DC isn't controlled by Jews.

[oyarde]

Paulite thinking:

Leo is a hypocrite for believing in global warming and having a yacht.
Ron Paul is not a hypocrite for taking social security but wanting to end it.

Try again.I have not yet taken any , if I do , I will never live long enough to get back what was stolen from me , so , a thief is a thief .

[oyarde]

What exactly is hypocritical about getting your own money back from a system that you've paid into your entire life?

Nothing wrong for the govt if you were productive , net gain for them , you die , they keep the rest.

[oyarde]

DC isn't controlled by Jews.

Not relevant , DC is under greedy tyrants ,socialists , communists , Marxists and other godless fucks , they all worship the same " god "

[PRB]

Not relevant , DC is under greedy tyrants ,socialists , communists , Marxists and other godless fucks , they all worship the same " god "

Christians and Muslims worship the same God too.

[devil21]

DC isn't controlled by Jews.

Erm, ok. Jesuits abound though.

[Spikender]

The least interesting thing I've heard all day. I had a conversation about college quizzes today more interesting than hearing about Leo the Blowhard opening his trap again. Leo has everything you need to be a douche: a douche name, a douche appearances, and douche hypocrisy.

[ChristianAnarchist]

Not relevant , DC is under greedy tyrants ,socialists , communists , Marxists and other godless fucks , they all worship the same " god "

Beware the cult of "government"...

[oyarde]

Beware the cult of "government"...

People should make sure to warn the children of this at every example that presents itself .