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Watch: Leonardo DiCaprio calls to end climate change in Oscar acceptance speech.
He worked like 20 something years to win an award and when he finally did he used his 30 second speech to talk about the environment. Fuck yes.
Over the last few years, DiCaprio has steadily donated his celebrity - and at least $30m in funding according to his foundation - to help advance the United Nations climate negotiations, protect coral reefs and tigers,
to stop overfishing, to create marine reserves in the Pacific, and spread public awareness about the dangers of climate change. (from How Leonardo DiCaprio became one of the world’s top climate change champions)
He also breaks the movie-star mould by not having a huge car collection at his home in LA. “I have my Fisker, obviously, and I have a Lexus hybrid, but I don’t own anything else,” he says. “Ever since I learned about hybrid vehicles (environmentally friendly vehicles), that’s all I’ve really owned.” He has a few motorbikes, he says, but nothing more.
The reason for this lack of extra driveway bling, is, of course, DiCaprio’s desire to help the planet. Something that first stirred in him when then US vice president Al Gore invited him to the White House and gave him an environmental 101 talk. “That was the defining moment,” he says. “That’s when I wanted toknow more about what I can do, how I can get more involved.“
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