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Originally Posted by Igottago
I see this argument a lot, and I don't get it. If Leo lived in a teepee and travelled by horse would you actually listen to him? Do the environmentalists who don't have don't have jets and yachts have their voices heard more easily?
He is just using the transportation that's available to him, just like you and I do (and would if we were in his shoes).
Nowhere in the film do I see him pointing his finger at the "lower class scum", clearly global warming is being discussed as a large scale global problem that needs large scale solutions, he's not absolving himself from it.
I don't see why people get so defensive about this.
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To me it depends on the person and the message. I don't know enough about Leo to know if he's being a hypocrite or not, but not likely. In most cases it's a little silly to call out environmentalists for not living off the land.
My exception is always David Suzuki, he's an example of someone who truly does preach a minimalist lifestyle and chastises people for not doing everything they can and then turns around and lives a pretty high energy life with multiple houses and tons and tons of air travel.
If you don't arrogantly proclaim that everyone should be like that though, then it isn't really fair to call them out for it.