Leo DiCaprio was honored in New York City this past week by the
radical clean-water advocacy group Riverkeepers. In order to be feted for his
environmental largesse at this event,
he flew on a private jet from Cannes, where he had been partying with pretty
people at the notorious Cannes Film Festival. He completed the 8,000 mile
round-trip the next evening by taking a different jet back to France for a
glitzy Cinema Against AIDS gala, replete with models galore.
DiCaprio, who used his Oscar acceptance speech to
state: “Climate
change is real. It is happening right now, it is the most urgent threat facing
our entire species,” etc., constantly traverses the planet on private jets and
yachts. His vast and expanding carbon footprint, of course, dwarfs that of
those of us not in the top 1% of the top 1% in income. Since fossil-fuel driven
travel is much cheaper, faster and more convenient than other modes of
conveyance, giving this up would be a sacrifice of sorts. One that he is
obviously unwilling to make, even though- unlike most of us- he could afford to
do so. But, please understand, he is
an important man. He gives
lip-service…and real money to progressive causes. We should probably just do as
he says, not as he does.
Professionally, DiCaprio makes obscene sums of money
by pretending to be someone he is not. I’m not sure that is a particularly
difficult job for him.
He does the same thing in his personal life, as well.
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