Project on Environmental Issues 2

Speech of Leonardo DiCaprio

The article I read is based on how Leonardo DiCaprio chose to make a speech about the effect of world leaders' power that chose to kill this planet and make entreprenerships based on personal values, and not ackknowledging the fact that we are wasting this planet. The article also talked about how DiCaprio was interested in climate cahnge and making an influence about it way before this speech. But this speech was the reason people learnt how he valued this so much.

Everything he said in his speech was relatable for me because I am a person that thinks humans are the only species that don't have any positive effect on the chain of life, but the only thing we do is corrupt and harm this planet for our personal benefits. He also made a point to the elections that USA is going to have soon, and he said they needed to support leaders that cares about the planet and the people that doesn't have the chance to talk more than they care about the money and the power they have. This is something I totally support because there are so many people that earn money from environment and by killing the world in order to make the people with power happier we are also killing those people.

DiCaprio met with people that are known for their researchs in climate change and he tried to get more information about this topic whenever he could. He also attended a lot of climate change protests and tried to brief people about this very important topic that needs to be acknowledged. Personally I am a person that cries every time they cut a tree in my neighbourhood in order to make a new apartment. Or like the time in Gezi Parkı where people resisted the cut down of the entire park in order to make a new shopping mall.

Like the Indian idiom, “When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money”. People needs to see this fact and DiCaprio made a move by spreading this idea to a very large amount of people. Of course this won't be enough, but at least now people have an idea that there is, in fact, a huge climate change that's happening and if we don't start doing something there won't be an Earth left for my childrens.

Article:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/29/how-leonardo-dicaprio-oscar-climate-change-campaigner