Another one from Marc Morano:
Leonardo Di Caprio talks to USA Weekend Magazine.
Leonardo DiCaprio lives in a "green" house, eats organic food and drinks filtered water instead of bottled. Now he has made an eco-documentary, The 11th Hour, a 91-minute film that he produced and narrated. It opens in the next few weeks around the country. DiCaprio, 32, talks with us about how we affect the Earth and what we can do to change course.
Excerpt: Q: Can the members of this generation become activists, or are they too consumed with entertainment and purchasing power?
"It has to start with things like this documentary. We need to get kids young. That's where it started with me. I can remember watching documentaries in which I learned about mass extinctions of species in rain forests. That emotionally engaged me as a young kid, and I said to myself, 'When I grow up, I'd love to make a difference in this field.'
More brainwashing for children?
Still no rebuttal from Biggsy.. so its Rog who needs to grapple with reality not fantasy...
'I don't have a photograph of you, details of your qualifications, where you work, your affiliations, your publications etc.' - Paul
Plenty of information in the archive of this blog Biggsy.. you will have to dig elsewhere for a piccy however since I have the perfect face for radio, its probably inadvisable...
There was case just this last week, someone using a blog and a pseudonym slandered a publically listed company,
result: blog shut down, author in hiding.
The problem was that the author accused the company of fraud.
Lamna needs to grapple with reality not fantasy.
Lamna - if you persist with cowardly personal attacks - you'll have to come out of hiding - I don't have a photograph of you, details of your qualifications, where you work, your affiliations, your publications etc.
It's the hypocracy that I oppose. The narcissitic Hollywood stars that promote enviro friendly life styles and are opposed to animal cruelty are big consumers of the beauty industry, read the botox-injection industry against wrinkles. This industry is involved in an enormous torture to animals.
Read about the cruelty in the botox-industry:
http://www.experimentation-animale.org/animaux_concernes/rongeurs/toxine_botulique.html
Jessica Alba who promotes IFAW, an animal welfare NGO, is certainly not the right person to speak up for the animals as she is a user of botox-injections herself!
I'm dead tired of celebrities making PR for the environment. They don't live up to the cause and their life styles are superfiscial and enviro harming. Maybe they are donating money to NGOs to make more PR for themselves.
This seems to be the cause with Hollywood stars like Leonardo and Jessica Alba. I have got newsletters from IFAW to go and watch their new movies.
What has really Jessica Alba got to do with the environment. When I go to the store to buy a magazine I see the shelves are full of " diet with Jessica" , " get a Jessica body and face ", check out Jessica's boob job", " check out Jessicas before and after plastic surgery job" etc. What has this to do with environmentalism?
'unverifiable anonymous poster' - Paul
Jen has my details, you however are unlikely to earn them by threatening censorship as a response to the production of verifiable facts concerning Robert Durward, who is a major financial backer of the Scientific Alliance.
Attempting to classify verifiable fact as 'spam' and threatening censorship for posting it, is unlikely to go down well with any institution currently archiving Jen's blog for posterity in a democratic country..
In view of your own comments regarding the funding of environmental NGOs however your reaction is highly illuminating for readers.. no rebuttal, just a threat.
Attempted intimidation in the face of uncomfortable information is not an editorial tool that increases your credibility Paul..
A correction re my above post. I DO know now who this British Mosley was. My comment on him was a bit silly since I misunderstood Lamna's comment.
Lamna - I've already cut you too much slack for an unverifiable anonymous poster - no more warnings - your posts become spam, which in truth, they already are.
"Note for younger readers - Oswald Mosely was the leader of the fascist movement in the UK in the 1930s and pro Nazi."
Dunno who this Mosley guy was. Maybe it was a " sin of the youth"?
Director Ingmar Bergman was a member of the Nazi Party until 1946 as well as Ingvar Kamprad , the billionaire owner of IKEA.
Our Queens father was a longtime member of the German Nazi Party back in the 30' and 40'.
'If only I'd starred in Titanic, I would then be more qualified to talk about environment, and icebergs.' - Paul
Top notch objective scientific analysis going on there Biggsy..eh?
So with the exception of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, not much 'genuine' green going on in Biggsy's background then (gotta love the aspirational Jag Drivers membership).. indeed why shorten the name of the Association of British Drivers?
'water melons' who are red on the inside, green on the outside. ' - Paul
'Genuine greens' don't start implying others are Commies when their credentials are questioned... right wing neoconservative propaganda spokespersons on the other hand are very fond of the 'watermelon' analogy... Maybe its just a co-incidence.. maybe...
'It is not the first time Mr Durward and Mr Adams have worked together on a political campaign. Two years ago they joined forces - again with Mr Durward supplying the cash - for the launch of the Scientific Alliance, an organisation set up to counter prevailing environmental thinking..
Mr Durward, who owns Cloburn Quarry near his home in south Lanarkshire, blamed environmentalists for the aggregates tax which imposed a levy of £1.60 on every ton of the red granite he extracted from his operation.'
- The Scotsman
The Scotsman newspaper reported that on contacting the Alliance to ask about Durward's role, 'after some uncertainty, the switchboard it shares with a number of other firms denied any knowledge of Mr Durward’s existence. Matthew Drinkwater, the one person responding to calls to its offices, could also be contacted by ringing the offices of Foresight Communications.
Foresight Communications is a PR firm established by Mark Adams in January 2001. As well as The Scientific Alliance, its client list includes the British Aggregates Association and the New Party for Britain (also known as the People's Alliance). The New Party - also the name of Oswald Mosley’s first party - is so right-wing that David McLetchie, the Tory leader in Scotland, where it operates, has called it 'fascist and undemocratic'.
" We must ditch this politically correct, self-destructing agenda and get back to the basics of promoting a forward looking, exciting and fun society, in which we may all prosper. Perhaps it is now time for Tony to try the ‘fourth’ way, declare martial law and let the army sort out our schools, hospitals and roads as well. Who knows, they might even manage to put the Great back into Britain."
- Robert Durwood.
Note for younger readers - Oswald Mosely was the leader of the fascist movement in the UK in the 1930s and pro Nazi.