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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Saying that he's using the transportation available. Come on man, he rented a megaboat for a sporting event that burns what you and me burn in a month in a day. He flys all over the world in a private jet. He living high on the carbon hog yet expects the rest of us to cut back.
He has a 3 building mansion. and in this picture a huge amount of cars, plus other mansions and getaways.
I'll give him credit he owns a tesla and he installed solar cells on one of his condo's. But lets not make him a savior here. His footprint is massive, yet he preaches to the rest of us about reducing ours.
He doesn't need to live in a teepee, but come on, what kind of lesson is he teaching here.
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I agree to a point. But someone using their celebrity and recognizable face to spread important messages is a good thing too. A lot of people don't pay attention to issues like this unless a pretty face is telling them about it, so at least he's lending his face to this and not his fragrance line, or custom hipster socks, or some such other stupid thing. Any time you have strong opinions about something, particularly controversial things, you probably have some pretty hard hypocrisies, and how avoidable they are is different for every person. Leo has the wealth and ability to do better for his own footprint, absolutely. But we can't be all "We're Canada! We're only a minuscule fraction of GHG emissions! Why Should we change!" and then be all over someone for their larger-than-me footprint, that is only a tiny contributor to the total problem. These types of petty arguments get in the way of progressive discussions involving many global problems. Can we just stop blaming each other, saying theyre worse so forget about me, so we can have frank discussions about a problem that involves all of us and can only be helped by all of us.
I haven't watched this yet, and I understand the whole "it was a chinook, you idiot" bit too, of course. But it has seemed unseasonably warm in the winters in Calgary for the past 5 years. The typical weather has certainly altered since I was a kid, so it wouldn't surprise me that they got some people sying things like "we've never seen this before."
I remember around the time they were filming there it was raining in February. It was the first time I ever remember that happening. And it has happened every year since I'm pretty sure. This is all anecdotal, obviously. Just seemed different to me.