How Leonardo DiCaprio Got People to Care About Climate Change
The actor's speech broke the record on climate change discussion on Twitter, one study finds
Ashley Hoffman Aug.5.2016
It seems like Leonardo DiCaprio got a bunch of people to talk about the Earth more after he accepted the award for Best Actor at the Oscars in February.
In his acceptance speech, which he finally got to make after years of looking gracious every time he didn’t win, DiCaprio demanded action on climate change, and it caused a significant spike in online conversation about climate change online, a new study published in the journal Plos one finds. According to the research, the number of tweets about climate change following DiCaprio’s call surged after the speech. (While the media didn’t report on climate change any more than they already were after DiCaprio’s plea, tweets with the phrases “climate change” or “global warming” hit a record-breaking number.)
“Climate change is real, it is happening right now, it is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous peoples of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this, for our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed,” he said.
http://time.com/4441219/leonardo-dicaprio-oscars-climate-change/?iid=sr-link3
Structure of the Lead：
WHO- Leonardo DiCaprio
WHEN- after he accepted the award for Best Actor
WHAT- a speech about climate change
WHY- Got People to Care About Climate Change
WHERE- at the Oscars
HOW- by speech
keywords
1.a bunch of 一堆
2.gracious 親切的
3. significant 重要的
4.spike 阻止
5.surge 激增
6.urgent 緊急的
7.procrastinate 拖延
8.indigenous 本地的
9.underprivileged 社會底層的
10.drowned out 淹沒
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