Leo DiCaprio Is Getting Crushed For Flying 8,000 Miles On A Private Jet To Pick Up An Environment Award

Daily Mail – On his way to collect an award for environmental campaigning, you’d imagine that Leonardo DiCaprio would be keen to burnish his green credentials.

However, as an A-list actor, he also has a busy schedule – so the star shunned more eco-friendly methods of transport to jump on to a private jet from Cannes to New York.

Having received his green award, the actor then flew straight back to France the following day – a round trip of 8,000 air miles.

Andrew Pendleton, of campaign group Friends of the Earth, said of DiCaprio’s actions: ‘It never looks good when a high-profile advocate for action on climate change like DiCaprio hops on a private jet.

‘It’s why we get disillusioned about people in the public eye.’

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Listen I hate hypocrites and celebrities who shove their political passion projects down your throat as much as the next guy, but come on now. It’s Leo. Leo is just one of those guys I can never get mad at. I mean he’s Leo.

Yesterday campaign groups criticised the actions of DiCaprio, 41, who in February used his Oscar acceptance speech to demand action on climate change.

The star’s trip across the Atlantic began on Wednesday. He had been spotted the day before at the Cannes Film Festival partying with the model Georgia Fowler, despite being linked to Polish model Ela Kawalec.
By Wednesday evening, he was in New York being honoured at the Riverkeeper Fishermen’s Ball, a clean-water campaign group.

The actor then jetted back to Cannes to make an appearance at the star-studded Cinema Against AIDS gala, where he gave a speech on Thursday evening.

Perhaps most extravagantly, back in France he also reportedly hired a helicopter to fly him from his rented hilltop villa to a party held in the gardens of the exclusive Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc.

Is it slightly hypocritical to spend so much time talking about the environment then flying 8,000 miles in a private jet to pick up a Green award? Sure. But I’d also say the guy has done more to raise awareness for climate change than anyone else on the melting planet. I mean he’s fucking Leonardo DiCaprio and all he does (in between making fire movies and banging supermodels on superyachts) is talk about how important the environment is. Guy finally won an Oscar and spent his whole damn speech talking about the freaking ice caps. I think he earned himself a private plane trip or two. What did you want him to do, walk?

Guy has earned his carbon footprint IMO.