Two years ago, DiCaprio – who has raised money for protecting tigers, orangutans and elephants – was designated a UN messenger of peace, with a special focus on climate change. “Rubio is a climate change denier, and we want to get these deniers out of Congress, to make them understand the Paris [climate] accords are important and that we need to do more,” Stevens said. “We were frustrated with our government, and I felt if the media isn’t getting to the population about climate change, maybe Leonardo can,” said Stevens. In Obama’s reading of the issue, climate change is as much a national security issue as an environmental one. “What haunts me is the last panel, with the planet in ruins, charred and blackened skies,” DiCaprio muses.

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2016 23:06 UTC