This question is in response to Leonardo DiCaprio's article on ''Global Warming''. The guy is throwing out Facts Like '' Homes consume 40% of the earths resources'' and stuff like that, don't get me wrong, I care about the enviornment! but check this fact out Mr. DiCaprio, The average middle class home consumes about less than 5% of a cities resources, The ''average'' 2.5 Million dollar home cosumes over 13% of a cities resources, Gas 6%, Electricity 2%, Water,5%... So uh, yeah...
2006-12-13 07:43:08 · 30 answers · asked by MDF 1 in Environment
Look up "hypocrite" and you will have your answer.
2006-12-13 07:45:52 · answer #1 · answered by computerguy103 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
To whoever is in denial about global warming; get your heads out of the sand. The weather in the arctic will give you a pretty good indication of where we are heading. yesterday's high in Iqualuit, Nanavut (Arctic) was close to 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Seems warm for the arctic? well it is. 10 of the last 12 years on this planet have been the hottest recorded (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16204542/). To those skeptics - yes, the weather has changed over time, but not at this accelerated rate. This is a man made problem and science backs it up. Inform yourselves folks, as a society we need to stop just thinking about today and start thinking about tomorrow and the world we will be leaving our children. Do I have all the answers; nope. What I do have is the foresight to acknowledge the problem and change my lifestyle as best I can to try and curb my carbon trace. The technologies are there to help reduce our emissions, too bad many of our great leaders (I'm in Canada - we are just as bad) around the world choose to back the powerful oil industries with subsidies and ignore sustainable energy sources such as solar and wind. Imagine where we would be if we chose to invest our money in these new technologies and not in war. Much further ahead I am sure...
2006-12-17 00:48:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I strongly disagree...Even though they're not from the same generation, I am going to say John Travolta is greater. BQ1. 1. Grease 2. Wild Hogs 3. The Taking of Pelham, 1...2...3... 4. Look Who's Talking 5. Urban Cowboy BQ2. Robert De Niro
2016-05-23 20:04:46 · answer #3 · answered by Rosemary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is why we don't get very far at improving our world.... Instead of bashing this guy because he's been more fortunate than most of us why not be glad he is putting his energy into something positive? Facts right or wrong doesn't matter that much if he get's alot of us (who really control the world) to get a little inspired and actually do a few things toward bettering our world.... I know I can do better, and everytime I do I help myself too by saving money etc. Sure, I can't afford to do much, can't have an electric car or solar heating/cooling but over time and efforts maybe we all will get to have that if we stop supporting the bad stuff little by little.... I don't believe the global warming theory but still think we ought to do the better things anyway... just makes sense. I've never seen this guys movies or know much about him but I'm pleased he's trying to make a difference by asking this question that got quite alot of responses. Isn't that better than him being like Paris, Nicole, Michael or O.J. , Terrell etc.... ???
2006-12-13 08:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by Essemti 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you know a damn thing about him? You don't know what car he drives or how he travels. Apparently he does drive a hybrid and he does conserve a lot. Same with Al Gore. All these idiots were saying that he's such a hypocrite because he flies around in private jets. Would you be interested to know that he does NOT fly in a jet? He goes on planes like everyone else.
You know nothing. Stop pretending that you do. Global warming is real. If you think it is not, you are an pea-brained waste of space. Making up facts and then spouting them off as truth is the lowest form of human behavior.
2006-12-14 10:15:57 · answer #5 · answered by superman11978 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok, so he may have a bigger house, but in the same respect, the effort he is putting in to fight Global Warming makes up the difference. I mean, even if Leo's house takes up a city block, I'm pretty sure that much of what he has in his home is eco-friendly...so his conciousness and effort to minimize the effects he and his home have on Global Warming is more than all the people who live on one city block. I say this because you could probably poll all the people that live on one city block in a middle class neighborhood and find that not many people are putting in any kind of effort to fight Global warming...let alone caring about it. So for us to say that his house is an average million dollar home, I can't say that I really believe that to be true. I also applaud him for using his celebrity to call attention to the issue of Global warming that we usually all just take for granted. At least js doing something useful with his celebrity, rather than just living on cloud Hollywood noth caring about anything.
P.S. He definitely does not drive a Pinto...but to assume he drives something contradictory to his efforts, like that he drives this big old celebrity high class vehicle, you're wrong...he actually own & drives a Toyota Prius (that's a hybrid vehicle).
2006-12-13 08:09:33 · answer #6 · answered by protected_by_jc 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question. Leonardo's many megamansions are an extreme version of the liberal suburbanites who show up at 'green' rallies in SUVs with bumper stickers that say WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.
Like James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Long Emergency" says, as long as we live a superconsumer lifestyle and are totally
car dependent, wars over oil resources are the ONLY answer. This statement belongs to Kunstler but I agree. Not only is our oil-guzzling lifestye endangering the environment, but it is burning the precious oil resources we need for so many other lifesaving wonders of modern life, and places us in the position of having to go to war for dwindling resources.
Do these people really think that we will run our interstate highway system and our sprawlopoli on corn oil and garbage, or on water vapor (see HYDROGEN ECONOMY, DANGEROUS FANTASY)? Does Leonardo have any conception of how environmentally destructive his house on the California fire coast, with its fragile ecology and extreme fire hazard, is?
2006-12-13 08:03:19 · answer #7 · answered by lani999777 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are all shockingly misinformed. I was never a big Leonardo fan until I found out that he drives one of those $20K hybrids. Not only does he drive a hybrid, but he bought one for about 20 family members. To call him uninformed, unintelligent, or to refer to him as a hypocrite just shows how little you really know. Why don't you try doing a little research and you'll find that Leonardo is an extremely well-informed and dedicated environmentalist. I agree with you all on the house issue, but let me ask you this. If you were a well-known multi-millionaire, would you feel safe living in a $250K house next door to Joe Schmo? I wouldn't.
2006-12-13 09:19:39 · answer #8 · answered by someperson 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Leo is an uneducated dim-wit actor, what do you expect? I agree with you, I love the environment and think man has done much in our history to harm our planet, but this global warming thing is a bunch of hype with little fact to back it up. Hell the scientific community is far from consensus on this thing. Just check out the U.N's recent report, "cow manure the most threatening catastrophe facing mankind". Give me a break.
2006-12-13 07:54:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Answer is: Because Mr. DiCaprio, like most Celeb's don't have any idea what it's like in the real world... They might have at one time, but it's long forgotten. The reason most of them are Democrats is because they have a deep seeded guilt that they make the kind of money they do for the amount of work they put in. Somehow Celeb's feel that they know more than the rest of us poor schmucks, when the fact is that most of them don't even change their own lightbulbs or even know how....
2006-12-13 07:54:59 · answer #10 · answered by kansashunter2001 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its unfortunate that celebs are being put down for actually giving a **** about something other then themselves, which lets face it how many premiers do you see these people at with the lights off to save on the energy they consume just to be seen. But you can't knock the guy for trying. I happen to love planet earth, but damn at some point in time shes going to say enough is enough for every action there is a reaction. There are wars and bombs exploding every day all over the world, the earth has to balance itself somehow and if global warming is what it takes for man-kind to reflect then so be it, the unfortunate thing is that our children and there children will be the ones to suffer the consequences, if we last that long. Read revelations it clearly states for GOD will not destroy the world or his creation but man will become so wicked and so wise that he will destroy himself. Get in your word and be saved.
2006-12-13 08:22:05 · answer #11 · answered by olivia b 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋