By Alejandra Vargas M @alevargas
“Climate change is real and is happening now. This is the most urgent threat facing our species and we must work collectively and stop postpone it.
We must support leaders around the world who do not speak for big polluters or large industries, but those who speak for all humanity and for the billions of people underprivileged in the world that they are affected by this. For the children of our children and for those whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed. “
With these words celebrated actor Leonardo DiCaprio, her Oscar for best actor for his role in the Born-Again (the Revenant).
in this DiCaprio, 41, played Hugh Glass, a browser attacked by a bear and abandoned by his companions to believe dead.
“Making the film the Reborn was about man’s relationship with the natural world, a world that felt in 2015 as the hottest in recorded history year,” said the actor, who is vegetarian.
Di Caprio As acknowledged in previous interviews, the harshness of the weather conditions that took place did the shoot filming a real “hell.” the actor was almost a year straddles the Canadian rocky mountains to Argentina Patagonia.
“I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Do not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted, “said ensuring that neither gave for granted the awards he received.
” The action against climate change starts with choosing leaders who will make bold changes and vital that need to save the planet, “said Di Caprio after the gala in his verified Twitter account.
Until at last!
Di Caprio
for the fifth time was the charm. it took a little over 20 years and thousands of memes in social networks to lift the golden statuette DiCaprio, since 1994 achieved his first nomination best actor for “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.” the second came in 2005 for “the Aviator”, then obtained by “Blood Diamond” and “the Wolf of Wall Street”
This time, with his role in the film directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, beat Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), Matt Damon (the Martian), Eddie Redmayne (the Danish Girl) and Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs).
Miles people have expressed their support on social networks. Organizations like Greenpeace and WWF also highlighted in their social profiles the phrase “# ChangeMitigation is real and is happening now.”
Other users also praised his message and ask joined Twitter action. “Everyone says Di Caprio this, Di Caprio that, but no one says we will stop polluting, let’s stop polluting the other,” said @Mialenny
Meanwhile, @_ElBarrabas added: “we can make fun of Leonardo DiCaprio, but what he said in the #Oscars is a latent reality And worse ….”
Other, reported even win public celebrations in the cities of Guadalajara and Mexico City.
Actor for cause
it is not the first time Di Caprio uses its renowned image to draw attention to climate change. In September 2014 at the United Nations said:
“I think mankind has looked climate change in the same way: as if it were a fiction. Pretending that climate change is not real, as if that would make the problem go away. But I think we are more aware than that. Every week, we are seeing new and undeniable evidence that climate change accelerated weather events “
He added:.” We know that droughts are intensifying, our oceans are warming and acidifying, with plumes methane rises from beneath the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, rising temperatures, ice sheets and West Antarctica and Greenland are melting at an unprecedented rate, decades ahead of scientific projections. None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria. It is a fact. The scientific community knows, industries and governments know, even the US military know. “
He concluded,” I am not a scientist, nor need be, because the scientific community world has spoken and given us our forecast, if we do not act together, we will surely perish. Now is our time for action “.
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