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Leo's Hypocrisy on Climate Change

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Oscar night comes and goes, but not before Leo gives the public a lecture on global warming.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar Climate Change Grandstand - Hit & Run : Reason.com

What a dingbat.

Couple points about this hypocritical douche bag:

1. How much energy was wasted carting all those stars off to the wilds of Canada and Argentina for filming scenes of "The Reverent" on location?

2. How much damage was done to pristine wilderness hauling those pampered Hollywood buttwipes and their posh trailers into said wilds?

3. How many gallons of Jet fuel did Leo burn in his private jet, shuttling his pampered ass around the globe in pursuit of his livlihood?

4. Why is the livlihood of the little guy: autoworkers, coal miners, oil drillers, etc; less important than the people playing pretend on the silver screen?

Go **** yourself Leonardo.
 
calamity said:
Oscar night comes and goes, but not before Leo gives the public a lecture on global warming.
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No one - except those looking for an inane and irrelevant reason to dismiss climate change - cares about individuals that are not acting in the most environmentally sound fashion while using a public speaking opportunity to warn individuals about the dangers of climate change.
 
calamity said:
Oscar night comes and goes, but not before Leo gives the public a lecture on global warming.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar Climate Change Grandstand - Hit & Run : Reason.com

What a dingbat.

Couple points about this hypocritical douche bag:

1. How much energy was wasted carting all those stars off to the wilds of Canada and Argentina for filming scenes of "The Reverent" on location?

2. How much damage was done to pristine wilderness hauling those pampered Hollywood buttwipes and their posh trailers into said wilds?

3. How many gallons of Jet fuel did Leo burn in his private jet, shuttling his pampered ass around the globe in pursuit of his livlihood?

4. Why is the livlihood of the little guy: autoworkers, coal miners, oil drillers, etc; less important than the people playing pretend on the silver screen?

Go **** yourself Leonardo.
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Yeah ! **** you Leo ! How DARE you use your influence to talk about an important issue !
 
Cisero said:
Yeah ! **** you Leo ! How DARE you use your influence to talk about an important issue !
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I guess you completely miss the hypocrisy or simply don't care. Some people are just more equal than others---liberals certainly live by that one.
 
MrT said:
No one - except those looking for an inane and irrelevant reason to dismiss climate change...
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I don't see anything in the OP dismissing climate change.

I see an an indictment of hypocrisy.

DiCaprio's speech, and advocacy of climate change awareness more generally, is like Jimmy Swaggart preaching family values while cheating on his wife with prostitute Debra Murphree.

Sure, climate change is an important issue, but when the poster boy for your cause is also one of the biggest individual environmental offenders in the world it kind of cheapens the message.
 
MrT said:
No one - except those looking for an inane and irrelevant reason to dismiss climate change - cares about individuals that are not acting in the most environmentally sound fashion while using a public speaking opportunity to warn individuals about the dangers of climate change.
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Another one that completely misses the point. Why are some people more equal than others? Why can liberal Hollywood destroy a pristine environment and burn countless gallons of fuel to make a movie, but heaven forbid if we stick an oil well out there or mama buys an SUV to shuttle her kids to soccer practice? Explain that to me.
 
soot said:
I don't see anything in the OP dismissing climate change.

I see an an indictment of hypocrisy.

DiCaprio's speech, and advocacy of climate change awareness more generally, is like Jimmy Swaggart preaching family values while cheating on his wife with prostitute Debra Murphree.

Sure, climate change is an important issue, but when the poster boy for your cause is also one of the biggest individual environmental offenders in the world it kind of cheapens the message.
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Again, it only "cheapens the message" for those looking for inane and irrelevant reason to dismiss climate change.
 
calamity said:
Another one that completely misses the point. Why are some people more equal than others? Why can liberal Hollywood destroy a pristine environment to make a movie, but heaven forbid if we stick an oil well out there? Explain that to me.
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I am not saying that Leonardo is more equal than anyone else. I am saying that I do not give two ****s whether Leonardo is acting in the most environmentally sound fashion.

But if you're wanting to know why filming a movie is less harmful than an oil well, can I go with, "Filming a movie that doesn't involve building semi-permanent structures or removing millions of natural resources from the area is less harmful than a oil well?"
 
MrT said:
I am not saying that Leonardo is more equal than anyone else. I am saying that I do not give two ****s whether Leonardo is acting in the most environmentally sound fashion.
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Really? Why? Would you not want a preacher to live by his words? Or are you good with someone bull****ting you?

But if you're wanting to know why filming a movie is less harmful than an oil well, can I go with, "Filming a movie that doesn't involve building semi-permanent structures or removing millions of natural resources from the area is less harmful than a oil well?"
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Well...I can go with an oil well is much more beneficial to the little people than is a movie that most people on this planet could not even hope to afford to see. Goddamned liberals--they think the world revolves around them.
 
There are a slew of issues that Hollywood elites end up hypocrites on. DiCaprio is one of them on this issue of climate change.

"I feel there is a ticking clock out there. There's a sense of urgency that we all must do something proactive about this issue." is one of many things he said that night when asked about his little speech on climate change after winning the Oscar.

He may drive an environmentally conscious couple of cars that end up plugged into a house on an electrical grid powered by plenty of fossil fuel sources, but he also owns at least 3 luxurious houses with a footprint of their own and even an island last time I checked. He enjoys private jets and plenty of time on plenty of yachts (not necessarily owned by him) that burn plenty of fossil fuels... as in larger yachts can but through several hundred gallons per day.

If we want to talk about climate change and human influence on that, so be it. But we have every right to call DiCaprio a hypocrite when suggesting "we all do something."
 
calamity said:
Oscar night comes and goes, but not before Leo gives the public a lecture on global warming.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar Climate Change Grandstand - Hit & Run : Reason.com

What a dingbat.

Couple points about this hypocritical douche bag:

1. How much energy was wasted carting all those stars off to the wilds of Canada and Argentina for filming scenes of "The Reverent" on location?

2. How much damage was done to pristine wilderness hauling those pampered Hollywood buttwipes and their posh trailers into said wilds?

3. How many gallons of Jet fuel did Leo burn in his private jet, shuttling his pampered ass around the globe in pursuit of his livlihood?

4. Why is the livlihood of the little guy: autoworkers, coal miners, oil drillers, etc; less important than the people playing pretend on the silver screen?

Go **** yourself Leonardo.
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Isn't this pretty typical of pretty much all of the Celebutards in Hollyweird?
You know. Shooting their mouths off AS IF they knew something, anything?
Anything at all, beyond their narrow little make believe world.
 
eohrnberger said:
Isn't this pretty typical of pretty much all of the Celebutards in Hollyweird?
You know. Shooting their mouths off AS IF they knew something, anything?
Anything at all, beyond their narrow little make believe world.
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That they are too stupid to STFU is not a surprise. That people are so stupid as to actually believe these idiots, however, does bother me a bit.
 
calamity said:
Oscar night comes and goes, but not before Leo gives the public a lecture on global warming.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar Climate Change Grandstand - Hit & Run : Reason.com

What a dingbat.

Couple points about this hypocritical douche bag:

1. How much energy was wasted carting all those stars off to the wilds of Canada and Argentina for filming scenes of "The Reverent" on location?

2. How much damage was done to pristine wilderness hauling those pampered Hollywood buttwipes and their posh trailers into said wilds?

3. How many gallons of Jet fuel did Leo burn in his private jet, shuttling his pampered ass around the globe in pursuit of his livlihood?

4. Why is the livlihood of the little guy: autoworkers, coal miners, oil drillers, etc; less important than the people playing pretend on the silver screen?

Go **** yourself Leonardo.
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We here in Canada, particularly in Alberta, got a real hoot out of Leo's superior knowledge about climate change when he mistook a common, yearly occurrence - a Chinook - for the effects of climate change. The ignorance of American elites and "celebrities" on the issues is breathtaking and would be hilarious except for the gullibility of many who listen to such fools.

‘It’s a Chinook’: Albertans mock Leo DiCaprio’s climate change comments | Globalnews.ca
 
CanadaJohn said:
We here in Canada, particularly in Alberta, got a real hoot out of Leo's superior knowledge about climate change when he mistook a common, yearly occurrence - a Chinook - for the effects of climate change. The ignorance of American elites and "celebrities" on the issues is breathtaking and would be hilarious except for the gullibility of many who listen to such fools.

‘It’s a Chinook’: Albertans mock Leo DiCaprio’s climate change comments | Globalnews.ca
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And you wonder why the US is in as sad a state as it is.
 
calamity said:
Really? Why? Would you not want a preacher to live by his words? Or are you good with someone bull****ting you?
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Yes, I would be fine with a preacher who didn't live by his words. You know why? Because accusations of hypocrisy are an ad hominem attack and his actions have ZERO BEARING on the validity of his argument.
 
MrT said:
Yes, I would be fine with a preacher who didn't live by his words. You know why? Because accusations of hypocrisy are an ad hominem attack and his actions have ZERO BEARING on the validity of his argument.
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Just like the abstinence only crowd. Eh? Let's have someone who is ****ing everything that moves preach abstinence. Yeah, that makes sense. :roll:

I guess you're too deep in your "religion" to see how having a preacher like DiCaprio damages your cause more than it helps it. Too bad.

The point is, like abstinence only, preaching about living with a small carbon footprint only sounds good. But, it certainly is not realistic. I'm glad DiCaprio shows that to everyone willing to take an honest look at the messenger.
 
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calamity said:
That they are too stupid to STFU is not a surprise. That people are so stupid as to actually believe these idiots, however, does bother me a bit.
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I do believe that is called arrogance.

Seems typical of celebutards who hire someone to continuously blow smoke up their asses and re-enforce this unfounded sense of superiority. No wonder they get a false sense of their own importance, and feel compelled to speak out on things they no nothing to very little about.
 
So he wants us to develop alternative energy options. In the meantime he uses the energy options that are available. That doesn't make him a hypocrite. If he made is fortune from petroleum or something THEN he would be a hypocrite.

I reject the premise that you shouldn't voice an opinion on something unless you are 100% without fault yourself or unless you refuse to participate in society until your goal is met.
 
MrT said:
No one - except those looking for an inane and irrelevant reason to dismiss climate change - cares about individuals that are not acting in the most environmentally sound fashion while using a public speaking opportunity to warn individuals about the dangers of climate change.
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Yet you libs tend to ignore hypocrisy in your own ranks.
 
PakPuk said:
Yet you libs tend to ignore hypocrisy in your own ranks.
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uhh...yes. That's precisely what I am saying. I am ignoring his hypocrisy because it is irrelevant to the validity (or lack thereof) of his argument.
 
BrewerBob said:
So he wants us to develop alternative energy options. In the meantime he uses the energy options that are available. That doesn't make him a hypocrite. If he made is fortune from petroleum or something THEN he would be a hypocrite.

I reject the premise that you shouldn't voice an opinion on something unless you are 100% without fault yourself or unless you refuse to participate in society until your goal is met.
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So tearing up the environment and burning hundreds of gallons of fuel per person for no other reason then to make a movie is all well and good because the leading actor preaches what you want to hear. But, people burning fuel to heat their homes and drive to work are environmental terrorists and must changes their ways. Got it. :roll:
 
calamity said:
So tearing up the environment and burning hundreds of gallons of fuel per person for no other reason then to make a movie is all well and good because the leading actor preaches what you want to hear. But, people burning fuel to heat their homes and drive to work are environmental terrorists and must changes their ways. Got it. :roll:
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That is an idiotic strawman. First, who the hell is saying people who drive to work are environmental terrorists? Not me and not Leo. I am sure some wackos due but this thread isn't about them. Second, it might be easy to criticize a rich person like Leo but judging by the credits that movie employed upwards of 1,000 people. So that movie created jobs for a time being.

The goal by people like DiCaprio is to change the system so all those people driving to work, and heating their homes, and making movies HAVE affordable and environmentally sound energy sources.
 
I'm sure all these celebrities fly on private jets or first class, have gas guzzling cars and mansions that consume way more energy than they need. If it's the single greatest issue facing making you'd think Leo would have driven in on a Prius and advocated living a less lavish lifestyle. I'm sure each one of them has the carbon footprint of 100+ "regular" people.
 
BrewerBob said:
That is an idiotic strawman. First, who the hell is saying people who drive to work are environmental terrorists? Not me and not Leo. I am sure some wackos due but this thread isn't about them. Second, it might be easy to criticize a rich person like Leo but judging by the credits that movie employed upwards of 1,000 people. So that movie created jobs for a time being.
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A thousand people tearing through the remote wilderness of Canada and Argentina. They probably did nowhere near as much damage as the Tar Sands, but still. I'm sure those areas will take a decade to recover.

The goal by people like DiCaprio is to change the system so all those people driving to work, and heating their homes, and making movies HAVE affordable and environmentally sound energy sources.
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Yeah...all 80,000 square feet of each of Leo's mansions uses clean energy. :roll:
 
digsbe said:
I'm sure all these celebrities fly on private jets or first class, have gas guzzling cars and mansions that consume way more energy than they need. If it's the single greatest issue facing making you'd think Leo would have driven in on a Prius and advocated living a less lavish lifestyle. I'm sure each one of them has the carbon footprint of 100+ "regular" people.
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I bet it's closer to 10,000 if you count people living in places like Asia and Africa. It's probably a 1000X the average American family.
 
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