Sunday 28 February 2016

Leonardo Di Caprio uses Oscar Award speech to highlight climate change


Leonardo Di Caprio used his Oscar speech to highlight climate change in his acceptance speech for the best actor award. He won the award for his role in the film The Revanant.

Di Caprio has been lending his support to the United Nations for some time to highlight climate change as an issue.


This is an excerpt of his speech highlighting climate change:

And lastly I just want to say this:

France: 60,000 people protest against new Nantes airport as climate hypocrisy


A mass mobilisation brought tens of thousands of Nantais and people from across France together on two roads in Bretagne, the 4 lane Nantes-Vannes and Nantes-Rennes, to oppose the construction of the Notre-Dame-Des-Landes (NDDL) new airport project by construction company Vinci 30 km north of Nantes.

The project is widely seen as climaticide and not compatible with France's commitment to the #