It’s been a crazy, busy, gas-guzzling summer for Leonardo DiCaprio, the famous actor and environmental activist.
At the very beginning of this summer, in mid-June, DiCaprio jetted into Brazil on a private plane to take in the opening match of the 2014 World Cup.
While in Brazil, stayed on a 470-foot yacht owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, according to Arab News. The glitzy yacht, called the Topaz, is the fifth-biggest yacht on earth.
Sheikh Mansour, the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, has a net worth of over $30 billion. That staggering wealth comes primarily from oil. Mansour leads the International Petroleum Investment Company. Many of his other business interests are also oil-related.
A round-trip, commercial flight from New York to, say, San Francisco creates about three tons of carbon dioxide per passenger, the Times estimates, and those three tons equal about 15 percent of the annual warming effect registered by a typical American.
The Times does not delve into the increased carbon dioxide per passenger caused by private jets, or huge yachts.
btw, this month marks 18 years of no global warming – the longest continuous period with no warming ever recorded since the satellite system was first launched in 1979, despite the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere increasing significantly over that time…
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