Climate Change
Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Before The Flood’ Review: An Urgent Look At Climate Change
Main Points Of The Award-Winning Documentary
About The Documentary
‘Before The Flood’ is an award-winning 1:35min documentary, starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Fisher Stevens that was launched in 2016. Written by Mark Monroe, it is available for free to view through the Youtube platform. Since its release, it has been viewed by an approximate total of 6 million people and has been aired in 171 countries and 45 languages.
The documentary revolved around Leonardo’s journey as he travels around the world to visit scientists, politicians, and those in power in order to reach a real understanding of the impact of climate change and environmental and ecosystem damage that has led the world to the destructive situation it is in now.
Main Points Of The Documentary
The main message of the film is to illustrate the urgency of viewing Climate change as a real issue and counteract, with scientific and visual proof, the view of some politicians and large profitable organizations that deny climate change is an issue.
The documentary aims to raise awareness of issues about human-caused damage that has led to Climate change, ecosystem disruption, carbon emissions and caused the seas to rise. Each of these issues is interconnected and poses a big threat to Planet earth and human and animal survival.
The documentary also aims to provide solutions to the problem of environmental damage and climate change, calling forward everyone to take action in order to combat climate change. Through interviewing those in power such as politicians and scientists, problems are discussed as well as possible solutions.
What Makes This Documentary Special
The fact that Leonardo is a famous award-winning actor and environmental activist is responsible for most of the success of this film and it has drastically helped in using Leonardo’s celebrity status to raise awareness on the issue of climate change.
The interviews with well-known politicians and scientists also added social proof as well as the in-person trips around the globe gave viewers a close realistic look at the scale of the damage the planet is experiencing.
Awards The Documentary Has Received
Cinema for Peace Awards (2017)
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards (2016)
Environmental Media Awards, USA (2017)
Hollywood Film Awards (2016)
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) (2016)
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA (2017)
Music + Sound Awards, International (2017)
Toronto International Film Festival (2016) — An excerpt from the IMBD website. Source.
Main Takeaways
- Climate change is a real issue that should not be overlooked as its causes damage to the Earth and leads to drastic disasters.
- Wiping out complete species and disseminating the ecosystem is another issue that needs to be addressed because of the damage to the environment and greed for profit by big organizations.
- Transportation plays a big role in producing co2 which leads to climate change, creating dangerous weather patterns. Solutions need to be implemented before it’s too late.
- Scientists say that the Ice is melting, and if the issue is not addressed or stopped the Arctic ice will melt by 2040 leading to Floods and further destruction to human and animal life.
- Miami is one of the most areas in the US suffering firsthand from climate change yet they are working on solutions and building pumps throughout the city of Miami, raising roads as prevention.
- The greed of politicians and big organizations is a big threat to the environment as they try to minimize the impact of Climate change and threat and attack scientists who believe.
- China is #2 after the US and is playing a massive role in climate change, leading to horrible living conditions (air toxicity) within China and worldwide
- Palm oil industry destructing ecosystems in Indonesia. The industry has controlled over 80% of the land in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem leading to endangered species such as rhinos, elephants, and tigers.
- The world is run on fossil fuels which further damage the Earth.
