Leonardo DiCaprio has long been one of the United States’ most high-profile climate change hysterics. Since decades, he’s been pushing this topic both in movies and in public.
That doesn’t make DiCaprio a bad actor. On the contrary, I think he’s been a pretty great one over the course of his career, and unlike many on the left, most on the right are able to compartmentalize someone’s professional abilities and personal politics. This speaks volumes about each person’s emotional maturity, but I digress.
DiCaprio is embroiled in an unresolved feud with Jair Bolsonaro (Brazilian President), a figure who has been causing great concern among American leftists for many years. According to the Daily Wire, they got into a dispute back in April.
DiCaprio had issued a series of tweets on April 28 in which he first stated, “The Tapajós region of Brazil’s Pará state is the target of industrialized illegal mining” then followed by urging people to vote, tweeting, “Brazil is home to the Amazon and other ecosystems critical to climate change. What happens there matters to us all and youth voting is key in driving change for a healthy planet.”…
…The day after DiCaprio’s tweets, Bolsonaro mocked DiCaprio on Twitter, writing, “Thanks for your support, Leo! It’s really important to have every Brazilian voting in the coming elections. It is up to the people of Brazil to decide whether or not they will retain their sovereignty in Amazonia, or are they willing for foreign-friendly crooks to rule them. Good job in The Revenant.”
DiCaprio trying to meddle in Brazil’s elections didn’t sit too well with Bolsonaro. I’ve also been assured that foreign inference in the electoral process is the antithesis of “democracy,” but that rule never seems to apply to the left (i.e. Barack Obama’s meddling in Israel). Amazing how this works.
On Tuesday, however, there was another drama after DiCaprio criticized Brazil’s deforestation. Bolsonaro quickly responded.
How extensive is deforestation in Amazonia, one of the most important places on the planet for people & wildlife? This map is courtesy of @mapbiomasThe region has been subject to an upsurge in illegal forest destruction by the extractive industries over the past three years. pic.twitter.com/BLxUC3S3z7
— Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) July 26, 2022
– You again, Leo? As we use the phrase in Brazil, this will make you my top electoral cable. You could be told to abandon your yacht and go to the world to lecture, but you know what I mean: progressives want the whole world to change, but not you. So I’ll let you get off the hook. https://t.co/FxCnqhFv6D
— Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) July 28, 2022
I think my views on the matter are quite simple. I think it’s fine to say that deforestation is a bad thing. In a perfect world the Amazon would still be an intact ecosystem. All ecosystems in the world would look perfect, in fact. But we don’t live in a perfect world. We live in a world with billions of people who must use resources to support themselves.
DiCaprio’s crusade absconds from that fact while exposing his own rampant hypocrisy in the process. Why should poor Brazilians have to change their meager lifestyles when Hollywood actors aren’t willing to make even the smallest sacrifices of their own? DiCaprio owns a yacht. He lives in a house. He is the owner of a private aircraft. He makes life decisions that are more harmful to the planet than the average Brazilian trying to survive in the jungle.
Brazil is a sovereign country, so even though you believe it needs to alter its policies, much of its Amazon Forest can still be found within its borders. They can choose how to deal with it. Progressivism’s paradox is its followers pretend to love colonialism and believe that they should be able to have global control over other countries’ policies. Brazil and its residents don’t owe DiCaprio anything.
If activists such as DiCaprio wish to be taken seriously they need to take action in their lives. The fact that they continue to not do so is evidence that they either don’t believe their own propaganda or are so selfish that they don’t care enough to make even the smallest of changes. They are not credible on an international level.
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