DiCaprio’s ‘Before The Flood’ Drowns in Sea of Green Hypocrisy
Leonardo DiCaprio claims his new film will illustrate the dangers of climate change. Before the Flood is a new “documentary” that chronicles DiCaprio’s carbon-spewing journey across the planet, where he relies on natural disasters to prove that global warming is occurring and catastrophic.
The Oscar-winning actor speaks to scientists, politicians, and academics who provide dramatic soundbites about man-made global warming, but he fails to include a single quote from the thousands of scientists, politicians, and academics who vehemently disagree with these soundbites.
The United Nations has made frequent use of the Hollywood star in an effort to demonize fossil fuel use. The result? DiCaprio’s new film is something the actor claims will “scare the hell” out of people.
But the only thing more likely to scare audiences is the aw-shucks, privileged dilettante who says he’s just a “normal guy” like everybody else. In reality, DiCaprio is a party boy who loves his carbon-emitting playthings as much as he enjoys preaching the global warming gospel. It’s a skill he acquired from Al Gore, after a 1998 visit to the White House. Shortly thereafter, he formed the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to address environmental concerns.
The documentary comes at a curious time, since DiCaprio and his foundation are caught up in a scandal that has launched calls for him to step down from his post as a “U.N. Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change.”
His foundation has allegedly received millions of embezzled dollars from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund—called 1Malaysia Development Berhad (or 1MDB)—as payment for his starring in and producing The Wolf of Wall Street, a film about an unscrupulous stockbroker. DiCaprio now says he will return the money, but that may prove difficult given that his “donor-advised fund” is attached to the billion-dollar California Community Foundation.
DiCaprio’s lavish lifestyle hasn’t stopped the media from praising his work as a climate change demagogue. Editors and reporters often quote DiCaprio for saying that the fossil fuel industry should be “taxed out of existence”—an ironic suggestion since fossil fuels have enabled him to zip around the world to attend environmentally themed parties or lecture world leaders to address the climate crisis.
DiCaprio’s antipathy toward fossil fuels prompted ABC’s Good Morning America to call him an “incredibly committed” man who is “not just talking the talk” but is actually “advocating bold changes to tackle climate change.” The well-paid staff at ABC may not have considered that multimillionaire DiCaprio can afford any carbon tax imposed on him. Unfortunately, most Americans are barely making ends meet in the Obama economy.
The hypocrisy is indeed entertaining, however, and examples abound of DiCaprio’s carbon profligacy. Three months before standing in front of the U.N. and lamenting, “If we do not act together, we will surely perish,” DiCaprio took a private jet to Brazil. That flight was needed so the actor could borrow an Abu Dhabi billionaire’s 470-foot yacht to throw an extravagant party.
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