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- Prof Jason Box. DiCaprio is helicoptered onto the Greenland ice sheet, where he meets with Jason Box, a professor at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).
- Prof Michael E Mann. No movie is complete without the bad guys. And DiCaprio is keen to stress the role that “corporate interests” have played in spreading “disinformation” about climate change.
- Dr Sunita Narain. After a trip to Beijing to witness the smog and speak to experts about how releasing pollution data to citizens has helped to change public attitudes, DiCaprio arrives in India.
- Prof Gidon Eshel. It is well known that DiCaprio has donated a significant proportion of his wealth and time to various habitat conservation projects, notably focused on oceans and tropical forests.
Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary film about climate change directed by Fisher Stevens. The film was produced as a collaboration between Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio , James Packer , Brett Ratner , Trevor Davidoski, and Jennifer Davisson Killoran.
“Before the Flood” paints a vivid picture of the urgency of climate change. It begins with the explanation of the Anthropocene era, marking a period where human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth’s climate and ecosystems.
Nov 7, 2016 · In the early 1500s, artist Hieronymus Bosch produced a tryptic painting which he called “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. In the first panel, he depicted an untainted world—the Garden of Eden, in which sits God, Adam and Eve. Here, Earth and man live as one.
Nov 15, 2016 · The imagery, painted in the late 1400s, depicts a lifetime of humanity, with one panel showcasing the splendor and enjoyment of nature, and the second, the twisted way that humanity evolves and...
Nov 2, 2016 · The film opens with a scan of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych depicting the golden age and inevitable downfall of humanity in a charred, nightmarish landscape. The allegory and link to climate change is obvious, but it remains an astute comparison.
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DiCaprio chronicles his three-year excursion around the world seeking solutions to the problem which is unfolding more swiftly than many scientists had predicted. He says that in the back of his mind is the "nightmarish" painting which hung over his bed as a child.
