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Leonardo DiCaprio embodies all the worst Hollywood contradictions

The opulent lifestyle is something that Leonardo DiCaprio adores, even if it results in a significant amount of carbon emissions. There was a time when he travelled 8,000 miles to New York from the Cannes Film Festival in order to receive an award for environmental protection.

DiCaprio appears to be unconcerned about his own carbon footprint, despite the fact that he has made it a point to lecture anybody who will listen about how climate change is “the most urgent threat facing our entire species.”

It is not unheard of for him to purchase diesel-guzzling mega-yachts as presents for the women he has previous relationships with. As a United Nations climate change ambassador, he is without a doubt in need of his private jets and boats in order to carry out his essential duties.

It is remarkable, to say the least, that against that backdrop he continues to produce Hollywood propaganda films lecturing the rest of us about climate change.

His most recent production, which is a barely disguised attempt at entertaining, is another eco-propaganda picture. It is a cartoon film called Ozi: Voice of the Forest, and it follows the adventure of a young orangutan who uses the power of online influence to preserve nature from capitalists who are harmful.

If something like this were to come from Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion, or any other religiously motivated activist organisation, it would be quite problematic. At the very least, the anti-growth mindset being held by its creators would then be intellectually consistent.

But this movie was not produced by a campaign organisation that is not for profit. This was a Hollywood production. It is the product of a firm known as Appian Way, which Leonardo DiCaprio founded and currently owns.

When it comes to their assertions of environmental virtuousness, the other major names that are behind Ozi: Voice of the Forest are no better. Following his casual disclosure in a radio interview in the year 2020 that he leases some of the 60,000 acres of land that he owns to oil corporations, drag queen RuPaul, who provides the voice of a crocodile in the movie, was subjected to a public relations storm.

It came as a shock to many of his followers when they learnt that he seems to be fracking, which is considered taboo in liberal circles. RuPaul, much like Leonardo DiCaprio, does not allow his hypocritical lifestyle to get in the way of his green virtue-signaling.

Corporations producing palm oil are cutting down tropical forests, according to the film. It’s not accurate. The most effective product of its type is palm oil, which is utilised in numerous products such as food and shampoo. The amount of forest loss is far lower compared to other oils, such as soybean and rapeseed.

In Ozi’s twisted story, palm oil firms joyfully clear vast swaths of forest land at will. As pioneers in the industry find more environmentally friendly methods of producing palm oil, deforestation is really at an all-time low.

Even though it is never explicitly stated, Ozi appears to take place in Malaysia, one of the world’s leading palm oil producers, where there has been a remarkable decline in palm oil deforestation. It peaked in 2014 and has since declined by 70%, according to Global Forest Watch. Sustainable palm oil certifications have increased to 93% of all palm oil imported into Europe.

It would be expected that you verify your facts if your movie is going to promote virtue signalling, particularly if it is a cartoon directed towards youngsters. Despite facing uncomfortable truths, Leonardo DiCaprio and the film’s financiers—environmental pressure groups posing as charities—refuse to budge from their predetermined positions on subjects such as palm oil.

If you don’t share the liberal groupthink perspective, then you’re part of the problem when it comes to killing orangutans, according to green dogma. Everyone who points out the benefits of free-market innovation or calls for more nuance is branded as a capitalist propagandist.

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