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(CNN) - Mick Jagger, leader of the Rolling Stones band, referred to President Donald Trump's environmental policies and criticized him for abandoning the Paris climate agreement. Jagger gave these statements at the Venice Film Festival this weekend.
"We are in a very difficult situation at the moment, especially in the United States, where all the environmental controls that were implemented, which were almost adequate, have been reversed by the current administration, so much so that they are being eliminated," Jagger said, according to The Hollywood Reporter
"The United States should be the world leader in environmental control, but now it has decided to go the other way," he added.
Jagger, the 76-year-old English rock star, was in Venice to promote the movie "The Burnt Orange Heresy," in which he plays an art collector.
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In a clear deviation from the direction taken by former President Barack Obama, the Trump administration has tried to eliminate many of the previous protection barriers that were installed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to declaring its intention to abandon the Paris agreement, the Trump administration has weakened fuel economy standards, replaced the Clean Energy Plan and has opened public land and high seas to oil and gas drilling.
Earlier on Saturday, hundreds of activists organized a demonstration on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival to demand a ban on large cruises in Venice and call for action on climate change. They won the support of Jagger.
"I am absolutely behind that," Jagger said, according to THR. "I'm glad they are doing it because they are the ones who will inherit the planet."
Actor Donald Sutherland, who plays an artist in the film, said he agreed with Jagger and offered his own criticism to Trump, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson.
"Mick is right when he said that the reforms that were instituted during the Obama administration were barely adequate, and are now being discussed," Sutherland said.
"It's the same in Brazil and they will be shattered in England," he said.
“When you are my age, when you are 85 years old and have children and grandchildren, you will not leave anything if we do not vote for those people to be out of the office in Brazil, in London, in Washington,” said Sutherland. “They are ruining the world. We have contributed to ruin it, but they are assuring it. ”
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Also at the event, Jagger said it was a "very strange moment," with more polarization and less courtesy.
“I am not sure that I am always against civility, but when you see it now, the uncivility of political life, which we see in many countries, including mine, especially this last week, and in other countries, particularly the United States: when you see this, it's a bit of a radical change from what you were used to, ”said Jagger, according to THR.
“I don't want to say that manners are everything. But the combination of all these things, where it will lead us, "he added, is" polarization, rudeness and lies. "
During the 2016 campaign, the Rolling Stones asked Trump to stop playing his music during the events and manifestations of his campaign, saying that the band never gave him permission to use them.
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