Leonardo DiCaprio's Climate Change: For Reel or For Real?

At the Oscar Awards, Leonardo the Caprio announced that climate change is real. Everyone is listening. And believing.

While scientists and environmental advocates have long rang the alarm bells about the reality of a rapidly changing climate that threatens the global economy, our way of life, even our very existence; it took an award winning actor's declaration to get the world talking.

Revenant, for which DiCaprio won the Best Actor award, had to change shooting locations from Canada to the southern tip of Argentina because the original location in Canada was 'too warm'. That's why, in his acceptance speech, DiCaprio looked very much like a credible celebrity with a cause because he was speaking from his very own experience.

I don't know if it is right that an actor, instead of a scientist or a politician has got us to listen, but it is clear that celebrities have far more convincing powers. At this stage and pace of global climate change, we have not much time to philosophize. It is the time to act.