DiCaprio’s documentary calls for a green future, but his vision isn’t radical enough

Leonardo DiCaprio - he calls
 for a green future, but
 his vision isn't bold enough.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s new climate change documentary, Before the Flood, began streaming online this week. As a disaster risk scientist, I watched with intrigue.

While it doesn’t cover a lot of new material for those familiar with the topic, DiCaprio will undoubtedly reach a new audience given his star power and access to figures like Pope Francis and US President Barack Obama.

At the time of writing, the film has been watched more than 6 million times on YouTube alone. Clearly, it will make a significant contribution to the contemporary discussion around climate change, much like Al Gore’s  An Inconvenient Truth a decade ago.

Read the thoughts of a senior lecturer in Construction Management and Disaster Risk Reduction at the University of Newcastle, Jason von Meding, on The Conversation – “DiCaprio’s documentary calls for a green future, but his vision isn’t radical enough.”

Piers Sellers is inspirational in "Before the Flood'

-       Robert McLean

Piers Sellers - inspirational!

Piers Sellers is an optimist and his brief appearance was for me the highlight of Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie, ‘Before the Flood”.

The NASA scientist and former astronaut has been diagnosed with terminal stage four pancreatic cancer and even though the 60-year-old will not see the outcome (his admission), he is absolutely positive humanity will respond positively to the unfolding threats of climate change.

The entire Before the Flood movie can be watched now, but the suggestion is that it will be taken off-line this weekend – I urge you to watch it as it thoroughly reinforces the need to each of us to do what we can to see our governments and the world community to do quickly what obviously needs to be done.