Leonardo DiCaprio Sacrifices Trees To Save Polar Bears
Oh, those crazy celebs. They’ll do anything for a laugh! Always joking and joshing and trying to save the planet by jetting everywhere and killing the trees. I sit here every day and laugh at their crazy antics.
The latest prankster is none other than baby-faced Leonardo DiCaprio, most famous for not being able to hang on to a plank of wood and for making a movie about an airplane (nope, no fuel used during the making of that movie, I’m sure). Leo wants all of us to reduce our carbon footprints and use less resources, just like he does, as evidenced by this blurb from back in May of 2007:
[Leo]Â was recently riled when a reporter at a Cannes screening of his eco-documentary “The 11th Hour” confronted the star on his gas-guzzling travel habits. When asked whether he took a private jet from New York to the French Riviera, a visibly annoyed DiCaprio snapped, “No, I took a train across the Atlantic,” before adding, “I try to travel commercial as much as I can.”
Not content with reducing his fuel output, he has also come out against the constant influx of junk mail in our snailmailboxes, because it’s a total waste of paper and it’s killing the trees:
In March, The Post reported how the “Blood Diamond” star so hated unsolicited, paper-wasting pitches showing up in his mailbox, he and fellow environmentalist Adrian Grenier joined a movement to establish a national “Do Not Mail Registry.” The campaign, spearheaded by environmental group ForestEthics, urges Americans to sign a petition demanding the government make it possible for citizens to ban junk mail, much as telephone cold-callers were stopped with 2003’s “Do Not Call Registry.”
I can get behind that. I agree with saving trees. But what’s Leo’s latest cause? He wants to save the polar bears, which in and of itself isn’t a bad thing. So how’s he spreading the word? If you’ve read this far, you’ve probably already guessed:
This week, freelance writer Philip Recchia received in the mail a big envelope with DiCaprio’s name on the return address space, soliciting donations for the Natural Resource Defense Council’s “Polar Bear S.O.S.” campaign.
Inside the envelope were a one-page pitch letter from DiCaprio and a two-page pitch letter from NRDC president Frances Beinecke; a flyer for a free “Save the Polar Bear!” tote bag; a donation form/petition to the secretary of the interior, urging him to protect the polar bear as an endangered species; and a return envelope.
I guess it isn’t “junk mail” when it’s one’s pet project or about something you believe in. After all, what could be better than saving the polar bears? Is it worth it to kill a few trees for something you really, really believe in?
Look, I don’t want the polary bears to die either, especially not the one in my Fridgitydaire (and if you got that you know your stuff). But seriously. I honestly think that Leo and his green buddies truly believe that it doesn’t qualify as “junk mail” if it’s about a project that is majorly super important. It isn’t like we live in the 21st Century and have things like email and websites and television and cellphone videos and stuff to spread the word about important-type things.
Maybe we should all mail Leo letters reminding him of how horrible it is to waste paper.
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I am so with you on that one.
Comment by crazymom — July 10, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
You are a friggin’ genius!
Comment by d — July 10, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
My favorite author of all time, of course! Did you also know he wrote “A Boy Named Sue”?
Comment by Moses — July 10, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
My guess is that each piece of Leo’s SOS was printed on one side only of that paper. Shame on him! The clueless leading the even more clueless.
Comment by Joanie — July 10, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
Ya know I think something “happens” to celebs. Be it Madonna or whomever helping guide us ignorant morons to enlightenment. My opinion is they need to leave us normal people alone and find a celebrity planet to control.
But shhh, I love DiCaprio as an actor…I just do. Loved him in Catch Me If You Can. He’s pretty cute too.
Comment by toldya — July 11, 2008 @ 1:26 am