CLAIM: “By population, we are per capita the largest polluters in the world, and even scientists have been saying this for decades now,” actor and carbon dioxide-pumping yacht enthusiast Leonardo DiCaprio claimed in a recent interview with Deadline.
VERDICT: FALSE. This statement is false, according to data from Worldometer, which lists China as the number one emitter of CO2 in the world, per capita.
In his interview with Deadline, DiCaprio also claimed that planet Earth has “literally” nine years left on its “ticking clock,” and compared climate change to a Netflix satire film he recently starred in, Don’t Look Up, in which — spoiler alert — everybody dies an untimely death at the end.
“Much like this movie, there is a ticking clock,” the Titanic star said. “I think there’s a worldwide sense of anxiety about the fact that the powers that be, the private sector, governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine-year window.”
DiCaprio also suggested that voting for someone “sane” means voting for politicians like President Joe Biden.
“We’re all crossing our fingers that Biden can make one of the more substantial plans to at least implement renewables,” he said. “So, vote. Vote for people that are sane.”
The Catch Me If You Can star also begged that readers “vote for people that care about this issue and take science seriously.”
“And we should not have any elected leaders, on a state level, on a city level, or a national level that [doesn’t] listen to science, especially in this country,” DiCaprio said. “We’re really at that point of having to take major action as if it was World War II.”
DiCaprio has for years faced a barrage of criticism, callouts, and has been branded a climate “hypocrite” over decisions like the one he made in 2016 when he flew 8,000 miles across Europe and the U.S. on a gas-guzzling private jet to accept an eco award.
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He should take up living in a Grass Hut and eating raw veggies and resign from Hollywood
Maybe Mr. DiCaprio should also stop his world wide carbon footprinting. Like private jets etc
He should just quit making movies retire from Hollywood and take up living as a Hermit way up in the Rocky Mountians
Tell Leo, if he wants the USA to cut emissions….. give up smoking. Hes a bloody chimney….
Maybe Dicaprio says whatever it takes just to keep his friends? He does not walk the talk, he’s obviously a hypocrite. Why is he a spokesperson for a zero carbon lifestyle? Because he’s a rich and famous pretty boy.
China pollutes with smog[soot] because they do not have precipitators on their smokestacks.
As far as CO2 is concerned it matters not, as CO2 is plant food and we need more of it.
But what does Leo know? Next to nothing IMO.
Just another Hollywood idiot we need to add to our Boycott List Its China is the big time Polluter you Hollywood idiot making movies and using all those Kilowat Hours if Electricity to do it
Whether Biden is sane or not is an open question. He is certainly exhibiting significant dementia.