Monday, May 21, 2007

DiCaprio defends

Apparently the charge of hypocrisy has registered in Hollywood. In an appearance promoting a new environmentalist documentary, Leonardo DiCaprio stated that he takes commercial flights as often as possible and implied that his fellow Hollywood environmentalist types are doing the best they can personnally to reduce their carbon footprint.

I don't have the fact available to evaluate this, e.g., information on electrical consumption at the constellation of DiCaprio properties, gasoline consumption in DiCaprio owned vehicles, number and nature of private jet flights. I suspect that DiCaprio is still producing dozens of times more carbon dioxide emissions than the US per capita average but can't prove it.

The article with the DiCaprio defense is:


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070519184436.x9vgvtk2&show_article=1