If Irony Had a Carbon Footprint, It Would Look a Lot Like This Weekend’s Wedding in Venice
Leonardo DiCaprio, the United Nations’ very own Messenger of Peace for Climate Change, was spotted slipping into Jeff Bezos’s lavish wedding bash in Venice on Friday, joining a reported fleet of over 90 private jets that descended on the city, according to a new Daily Caller report. Yes, the same DiCaprio who once warned the United Nations that we were “decades ahead” of catastrophic climate projections and begged global leaders to act like the world was on fire.
And where did this display of eco-hypocrisy unfold? In Venice, the city that DiCaprio and other climate warriors often hold up as the textbook victim of rising seas and global warming. The same Venice that’s sunk nearly nine inches in the last century. The same Venice where Leonardo’s buddies arrived by air, by sea, and likely by every carbon-spewing luxury imaginable.
Let’s be clear: there’s nothing wrong with having a good time. But don’t lecture working-class Americans about their trucks and thermostats while flying private to party in a city you claim is disappearing beneath the waves.
And the media won’t say it, but this is exactly the kind of elite hypocrisy Power The Future has warned about for years. Leonardo DiCaprio made a movie called Before the Flood. Now he’s attending a wedding with a flotilla of superyachts and jets after the flood warnings. It’s not leadership- it’s branding.
Meanwhile, everyday Americans are told to unplug their air conditioners, drive $70,000 electric vehicles, and foot the bill for energy mandates they didn’t ask for.
And as for Jeff Bezos? The man who just “rented Venice” pledged a few million euros to a lagoon research group, as if tossing spare change at the problem gives everyone else a free pass to pollute.
The next time you hear a lecture about climate action, remember this: the people pushing the green agenda the loudest are often the ones living the least sustainably.
At Power The Future, we’re not interested in Hollywood speeches or yacht-side summits. We fight for the energy workers and families who keep the lights on without the lectures. And we’ll keep calling out the hypocrisy until someone trades the jet for a Zoom link.
July 1, 2025