Leonardo DiCaprio On Eco Hypocrisy

Exerpt from The Age. Another great article.

DiCaprio denies eco hypocrisy

Leonardo DiCaprio hit back at charges of hypocrisy as he unveiled, at the Cannes film festival, an eco-documentary he wrote, produced and narrated.

Asked after the premiere of The 11th Hour whether he had taken a fuel-guzzling jet on his way to the French Riviera, the Titanic star spat back sarcastically: "No, I took a train across the Atlantic."

When the British journalist followed up, saying many stars used emission-heavy private jets while touting environmental protection, a testy DiCaprio countered he had taken a commercial flight from New York.

"I try to travel commercial as much as I can," he said.

DiCaprio later came back to the reporter, saying he was irritated with the media for going after prominent environmentalists such as former US vice-president Al Gore (whose own film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, picked up an Oscar this year) for supposed inconsistency in their private lives.

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