"Hollywood Takes On Climate Change"

"Nothing sells quite like celebrity.

And Leonardo DiCaprio is working hard selling climate change.

The A-List actor has crisscrossed the globe to raise awareness of the long-term health and wellbeing of our planet. Part of those travels aired Sunday on National Geographic: An hour-and-a-half long documentary looking at the impacts of—and alternatives to—our fossil fuel addiction.

"Before the Flood" remains available for free on multiple platforms, and DiCaprio's star power is having an impact. Almost 2 million have watched the full movie on YouTube as of Monday afternoon (and 2.3 million have seen the trailer, embedded here). DiCaprio takes us to Alberta's tar sands, to smog-choked Beijing, to Elon Musk's battery factory. President Obama gets three minutes an hour and 12 minutes in; DiCaprio's audience with Pope Francis comes 10 minutes later."

Douglas Fischer reports for The Daily Climate November 1, 2016.

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