{"id":576,"date":"2014-09-24T02:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/?p=576"},"modified":"2014-09-24T02:23:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:23:43","slug":"actors-pretend-for-a-living-the-rest-of-the-population-does-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/2014\/09\/24\/actors-pretend-for-a-living-the-rest-of-the-population-does-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Actors pretend for a living, the rest of the population does not."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tuesday morning actor Leonardo DiCaprio addressed world leaders at the UN Climate Summit<\/a>.\u00a0What was this product of hollywood doing in a room full of heads of states? Well, he compared his acting career of “pretending for a living” and “solving fictitious problems” to how humankind is confronting climate change, pretending it is not happening to our planet. I’m sure many of us has seen hollywood “climate-fiction” films such as The Day After Tomorrow<\/a>, but we must be able to differentiate fact from hollywood’s fiction. Is getting the fictitious world of hollywood involved in the fight against climate change an effective wake up call? How do we get the people to stop pretending and face reality?<\/p>\n

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  Tuesday morning actor Leonardo DiCaprio addressed world leaders at the UN Climate Summit.\u00a0What was this product of hollywood doing in a room full of heads of states? Well, he compared his acting career of “pretending for a living” and “solving fictitious problems” to how humankind is confronting climate change, pretending it is not happening … <\/p>\n

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