Leonardo DiCaprio Takes on the Environment, Hollywood-Style

Aug. 12, 2007 — -- Last year, Leonardo DiCaprio appeared with Al Gore at the Oscars. Now, he's following Gore's lead with a new film urging action on the environment, "The 11th Hour," which opens this week in theaters.

Leonardo Dicaprio: I wanted to come into this whole process as an investigator and somebody that was asking the questions of people who've really devoted their lives to this issue.

In a scene from "The 11th Hour," Kenny Ausubel, Founder, Bioneers said "When we all talk about saving the environment, in a way [it] is misstated because the environment is going to survive. We are the ones who may not [be] going to survive. Or we may survive in a world that we don't particularly want to live in."

We're trying to make people really understand the consequences of what happens, will happen, if we just continue with business as usual. Let people understand some of the huge forces that face us in the future.

Maybe the next time you vote, or maybe the next time you buy something, you think about who you're voting for and what their environmental policy is and what company you're endorsing and the way they do business, because nothing's really going to happen unless there's a swelling up from the people, truly, and if we demand these things. We have to demand these things.