'It's real, it is happening right now' - Oscar winner's commitment to climate change

"Climate change is real. It is happening
right now." - Oscar winner
Leonardo DiCaprio seizes the moment.

On Sunday night while accepting a long-anticipated Oscar for best actor, for his role in “The Revenant,” Leonardo DiCaprio seized the moment to highlight the plight of the planet.

“Making “The Revenant” was about man’s relationship to the natural world,” DiCaprio said. “A world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow.”

“Climate change is real. It is happening right now,” DiCaprio continued. “It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” (You can watch the full speech here.)

Read The Washington Post’s story - “Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscars speech was about climate change,which could be worse than we thought.”