
Before the Flood
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- 2016
- 96 min
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My first
visual memories are of this
night before I went to bed.
My father was an underground
comic distributor.
He's always been this sort of
Zelig of the counterculture
as I like to call him.
Having painted in
Warhol's studio,
being roomies with Lou
Reed, he knew R. Crumb
and all these great
artists of his generation.
I mean, I was brought up on all
kinds of wacky visuals as a kid.
painting over and over:
The Garden of Earthly Delights
by Hieronymus Bosch.
And if you look at these
panels long enough,
they start to tell a story.
In the first panel you have Adam
and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Birds flying off
into the distance,
elephants and giraffe and a
lot of religious iconography.
it starts to become
more interesting.
The deadly sins start to infuse
their way into the painting.
There's overpopulation,
there's debauchery and excess.
And the last panel, which
is the most nightmarish one,
especially from a young child's
perspective, is this twisted,
decayed, burnt landscape.
A paradise that has been
degraded and destroyed.
Man may be
unwittingly changing the world's
climate through the waste
products of its civilization...
The burning of coal, oil and
wood is releasing carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere.
The greenhouse effect has been
detected and it is changing
our climate now.
Guess where the
temperature goes?
It goes up.
Climate change is
already in our backyards.
It's official. 2012 was the
hottest year in the...
warmest year around the globe
warmest year on record.
It is these activities
that drove mankind
out of the Garden of Eden.
- Hi, how are you?
- Ah, Mr. DiCaprio.
Pleasure, pleasure.
Great to, great
pleasure to see you.
Here.
We can move this.
This can be adjusted.
Oh wow, this
is for height control.
Yeah.
- Like this, like this.
- For shorter leaders
and taller leaders.
think is the most important?
Climate change is
coming much, much faster.
We have seen such, uh,
extraordinary extreme weather
patterns.
If you consider this
vastness of this universe,
just a small boat.
If this boat is sinking, then
I think we will have to all
sink together.
I know that he has been a
very committed and effective
environmentalist and that is
leadership and vision.
Please welcome
newly appointed United Nations
Messenger of Peace,
Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio.
Thank you
Mr. Secretary General,
Your Excellencies...
I feel incredibly honored
that they chose me to be
I stand before
you, not as an expert,
I want to do everything I can
to learn more about this issue.
going on and what can be done.
But it all kinda seems
beyond our control.
As an actor,
I pretend for a living.
I play fictitious characters
often solving fictitious
problems.
looked at climate change
in that same way.
We keep getting inundated with
catastrophic news about the
getting worse and
worse and worse.
Try to have a conversation with
people just tune out.
If the U.N. really knew
how I feel,
how pessimistic I am about our
future, I mean, to be honest,
they may have picked
the wrong guy.
Hundreds of
thousands took to the streets
of New York today demonstrating
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