Powered by celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Clintons, John Kerry's platform is born in the middle of the pre-election climate
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It was born on December 1 before the formal start of the Madrid Climate Summit with the aim of raising awareness of the world's population about the challenges of climate change and has already been backed by more than fifty celebrities, from Hollywood stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher or Emma Watson to leading politicians like Bill and Hillary Clinton or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
With an initial budget of half a million dollars, the initiative is called World War Zero and is led by John Kerry. "We want to try to reach millions of people, in the United States and other parts of the world, to mobilize an army of people who demand immediate action against the challenges of climate change," said the former US secretary of state in an interview with The New York Times newspaper.
The platform was born in the middle of the pre-election climate in the United States, where presidential elections will be held in less than a year, and the inevitable question is whether its objectives are to pressure Donald Trump to take the fight against change seriously. climate, especially after it announced in November the formal start of the formal withdrawal of the country from the Paris Agreement.
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The details of this proposal are still unknown, which support other faces known as Sting, Jimmy Carter or Pastor Al Sharpton, but among their plans is to hold thousands of citizen meetings across the country from January, especially attention to the states that will be key during the electoral campaign, so that the debate on climate change becomes one of the central topics of discussion.
"Our addiction to fossil fuels is killing us," said Schwarzenegger, who after his successful career in Hollywood joined the ranks of the Republican Party and was governor of California. In his case he is very clear and it is not about convincing Donald Trump. "He is not just a person, we have to convince the whole world," he warned in an interview with the Meet the Press program in which he presented in World War Zero society.
A bipartisan initiative that has since its inception backed by activists of both political signs and is promoted by some common faces in these areas such as Leonardo DiCaprio, who has been lending his image for years to raise awareness about the problems facing the planet and who recently confronted the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for the serious fires that swept through the Amazon region.
Always surrounded by a halo of mystery, some believe that behind the environmental activism of the protagonist of Titanic there is actually a well-calculated strategy to hide his most banal side, that of the star addicted to parties and orgies. Strategy or not, the reality is that over the years the foundation that bears his name has donated more than 100 million dollars to all kinds of proposals in defense of the planet.
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