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Leonardo DiCaprio: Oscar Winner and Bioneer!

It takes a lot more courage than you might think to do what Leonardo DiCaprio did at the 2016 Oscars. When Leo accepted his richly deserved Best Actor award, he passionately and forcefully called out climate change.

“Making ‘The Revenant’ was about man's relationship to the natural world — the world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production had to move to the southernmost tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real, it is happening right now, it is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted; I do not take this night for granted.”
Leo’s Oscar and brave speech are very personal for us at Bioneers. We are profoundly honored by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s unwavering support of Bioneers’ leadership over the past decade-plus. 

A little over ten 10 years ago, Leonardo invited me to join him at the Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of his feature documentary, “The Eleventh Hour,” and I got to see up-close-and-personal the kind of madness Leo has to confront for taking a stand.
 

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