{"id":1066133,"date":"2021-11-29T20:29:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1066133"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:30:14","slug":"actress-cate-blanchett-on-climate-change-we-need-to-be-fking-scared-and-demand-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-cate-blanchett-on-climate-change-we-need-to-be-fking-scared-and-demand-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Cate Blanchett on Climate Change: &#039;We Need to Be F**king Scared &#8230; and Demand Change&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factress-cate-blanchett-on-climate-change-we-need-to-be-fking-scared-and-demand-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1066133&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CateBlanchettclimate1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/cate-blanchett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cate Blanchett<\/a> is hitting the panic button on climate change, saying people need to be \u201cscared\u201d because it will motivate them to \u201cdo something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.net-a-porter.com\/en-us\/porter\/article-275108dccf076ff6?cm_mmc=LinkshareUS-_-tv2R4u9rImY-_-Custom-_-LinkBuilder&amp;utm_source=rakuten&amp;utm_medium=affiliation&amp;utm_campaign=US_3157217&amp;utm_content=US_Skimlinks%20(Variable%20Pricing)&amp;utm_term=tv2R4u9rImY-HEOEpze_AhuQIpDWxax8aA&amp;ranMID=24449&amp;ranEAID=tv2R4u9rImY&amp;ranSiteID=tv2R4u9rImY-HEOEpze_AhuQIpDWxax8aA&amp;siteID=tv2R4u9rImY-HEOEpze_AhuQIpDWxax8aA&amp;linkshare_siteID=tv2R4u9rImY-HEOEpze_AhuQIpDWxax8aA&amp;linkshare_affiliate_mid=24449\">interview<\/a> with Porter, the digital outlet of&nbsp;Net-A-Porter, the two-time Oscar-winning star said people are insufficiently concerned about global warming.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is trying to be positive, talking about 1.5 degrees of global warming. But 1.5 would still be disastrous,\u201d she told the outlet.&nbsp;\u201cWe need to be fucking scared\u2026 and demand change; be collectively courageous enough to face that fear and do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI\u2019m not giving up hope. As I say to my kids [on climate change], if we\u2019re going out, how do we choose to go out? It\u2019s a terrible conversation to have with your 13-year-old, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cate Blanchett was promoting her upcoming movies <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em>, a Netflix comedy about a comet heading for Earth, and Searchlight\u2019s <em>Nightmare Alley<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In her native Australia, the actress has faced criticism for her climate change activism.<\/p>\n<p>Some politicians dubbed her \u201cCarbon Cate\u201d after she appeared in a commercial in 2011 advocating for a carbon tax being pushed by green activists. Proponents of the tax intended to make it more expensive for ordinary citizens and companies to use fossil fuels, though low-income households would receive assistance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ZcLd9Eh8CyU&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ZcLd9Eh8CyU&amp;feature=oembed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Critics accused Cate Blanchett of hypocrisy, noting her carbon footprint as a globetrotting celebrity. They also pointed out her close professional association with automaker Audi, which was a major corporate sponsor of the Sydney Theatre Company, where she was serving as co-artistic director at the time.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Cate Blanchett is hitting the panic button on climate change, saying people need to be \u201cscared\u201d because it will motivate them to \u201cdo something about it.\u201d In an interview &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}