‘Before the Flood’ Lifts Curtain on Climate Change

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Rachel Singh

November 14 2016

 

Leonardo DiCaprio’s strong presence in Hollywood was fortified by his Oscar win for his role in The Revenant earlier this year. He used his acceptance speech to raise awareness for his next project, stating, “Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species …” In his new documentary Before the Flood co-produced with director Fisher Stevens, released Oct. 21, DiCaprio commits to his role as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, traveling to opposite poles of the Earth to raise awareness about climate change.

 

DiCaprio starts off by stressing that climate change is not fictional like his films. The world is its stage, and we don’t have the convenience of changing locations as movie producers do when climate conditions become forbidding. The film’s tone is rather despairing, as we view the raw damage that has already been inflicted to our planet, from the melting ice caps in Greenland and the Arctic Circle to the incineration of forests for palm oil in Indonesia.

 

Though disheartening to viewers, the unfiltered footage of natural habitat destruction is the film’s strongest point. The ocean’s ghostly, barren reefs and Canada’s desolate tar sands are ugly updates to the our planet’s fractured mosaic under the pressures of climate change, caused by practices such as red meat preparation and oil dumping, an issue many have chosen to ignore out of convenience or for monetary gain.

 

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Can we 'lift the curtain' on DiCaprio's 'footprint'???? OK for me but not for thee?

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On 1 Trip, Kerry Producing As Much CO2 as Average American Does in 1 Year

 

(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John Kerry winged his way Monday from New Zealand to the Middle East on the next leg of what may be his longest trip yet, a journey during which America’s top diplomat will account for roughly 16.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

 

That’s more or less the amount of CO2 – one of the key “greenhouse gases” blamed for global warming – produced by the average American in a full year, according to World Bank data.

 

Climate change features prominently on Kerry’s itinerary on his current trip, an eight-day haul from Washington to New Zealand to Antarctica – where he became the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit – and on to two Arab Gulf states and then Morocco before winging to Peru and then back home.

 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/his-very-long-trip-kerry-producing-much-co2-average-american-1-year

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Can we 'lift the curtain' on DiCaprio's 'footprint'???? OK for me but not for thee?

 

His Sustainable Home

 

 

How He Gets Around

 

 

All He Eats

 

 

 

Thats His Story and Hes Stickin With It!