Fact Check: Leonardo DiCaprio Falsely Claims U.S. ‘Per Capita the Largest Polluters in the World’
CLAIM: “By population, we are per capita the largest polluters in the world, and even scientists have been saying this for decades now,” actor and carbon dioxide-pumping yacht enthusiast Leonardo DiCaprio claimed in a recent interview with Deadline.
VERDICT: FALSE. This statement is false, according to data from Worldometer, which lists Qatar as the number one emitter of CO2 in the world, per capita.
In fact, the United States doesn’t even make the top 15 largest emitters of CO2, on a per capita bases, in the world.
In his interview with Deadline, DiCaprio also claimed that planet Earth has “literally” nine years left on its “ticking clock,” and compared climate change to a Netflix satire film he recently starred in, Don’t Look Up, in which — spoiler alert — everybody dies an untimely death at the end.
“Much like this movie, there is a ticking clock,” the Titanic star said. “I think there’s a worldwide sense of anxiety about the fact that the powers that be, the private sector, governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine-year window.” – READ MORE
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