Leonardo DiCaprio: Ban climate deniers from office

Published October 4, 2016 1:48am ET



Actor and climate activist Leonardo DiCaprio proposed Monday that individuals who do not believe in climate change ought to be banned from running for political office in the U.S.

“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over,” DiCaprio said at South by South Lawn, a White House event intended to replicate Austin, Texas’s famous art, music and ideas festival South by Southwest.

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