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Polly Hui

Leonardo DiCaprio  might be best known to his Hong Kong fans for his role in Titanic, but yesterday, on a whirlwind tour of the city to promote his award-winning environmental documentary The 11th Hour, he was thinking about a different kind of sinking ship.
'We have to realise we have a unique opportunity at this period of time in history as a world community,' DiCaprio said as he urged the world's two biggest greenhouse gas producers, the US and China, to do more for a sustainable future. 'This goes beyond religion, it goes beyond government and beyond countries.
'It's up to this generation to make differences in sustainable energy and make a positive impact on our planet ... because if we don't, we will be answering to the next generations. I think we will probably be the most vilified generation in history if we don't make some sort of a positive impact now.
'I think definitely China is making steps towards that... The US is a little slower behind in a lot of areas. But we definitely need to make some transition extremely fast.
'I absolutely feel in many different ways, [if] these two countries, the US and China, don't set an example fast, it doesn't look good for the future.
'We could both do a lot more. We need to be one to set an example for the rest of the world to follow.'
The 11th Hour, which opens on Thursday, features DiCaprio as narrator and interviews many well-known environmental advocates and scientists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev  and physicist Stephen Hawking.
The star said former US vice-president Al Gore, who made the award-winning 2006 environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, played an influential role in his becoming an environmental activist.
He said Mr Gore had brought up the issues of sustainability and global warming with him during a visit by DiCaprio to the White House 12 years ago.
DiCaprio, flanked by dozens of security guards and public relations officers, made his comments yesterday at a press conference held by HSBC to promote its new Green Card. The bank will donate 0.1 per cent of the cardholder's spending to the Green Roof for Schools Programme of the University of Hong Kong. It has pledged to donate a total of HK$5 million to the programme.



Activist star warns of a titanic ending if the world doesn't act