"these children are ready to deliver their moral verdict on the people and institutions who knew all about the dangerous, depleted world they would inherit and yet chose not to act. They know what they think of Donald Trump in the United States and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Scott Morrison in Australia and all the other leaders who torch the planet with defiant glee while denying science so basic that these kids could grasp it easily at age eight. Their verdict is just as damning, if not more so, for the leaders who deliver passionate and moving speeches about the imperative to respect the Paris Climate Agreement and "make the planet great again" (France's Emanuel Macron, Canada's Justin Trudeau, and so many others), but who then shower subsidies, handouts, and licenses on the fossil fuel and agribusiness giants driving ecological breakdown."
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Justin Trudeau
Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born 25 December 1971) is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025 and was the leader of the Liberal Party from 2013 to his resignation. Trudeau was the second-youngest Canadian prime minister after Joe Clark and the first to be related to a previous holder of the post, as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.
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