Mick Jagger attacks the United States for giving up on environmental measures

During his stint at the Venice Film Festival to promote the film "The Burnt Orange Heresy", he was invited to comment on a demonstration on climate change that took place in front of the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice on Saturday.

"I totally agree, I'm glad they do, because they are the ones who will inherit the planet," he said, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

"We are in a very difficult situation right now, particularly in the United States, where all the environmental controls put in place – which were about right – have been so canceled by the current government that they have been removed. United States should be the world leader in environmental control, but they have now decided to change course, "added Jagger, referring to the withdrawal of the US administration from the Paris climate agreement .

Jagger compared the subject of the film – artistic transactions in which the truth is unclear – to the current political climate.

"This is part of this modern dialogue," he said. "We live in a very strange time every minute, and when you live in a strange time, you know it's a strange moment, but you do not know what's going to happen." The values ​​are different. polarization and less civility. "

"I'm not sure I've always been against civility, but when you see it now, the incivility of political life that we see in so many countries, including mine, especially last week – and in other countries, especially in the United States – you see that, it changes a bit of your habit, "he added, referring to the tumultuous week in which 21 members of the British Conservative Party were sacked by Johnson after backing a plan to prevent a Brexit without agreement.

"I do not want to say that manners are everything, but the combination of all these things, where it will lead us", he added, corresponds to "polarization, rudeness and lies".

Jagger, who plays a wealthy art dealer in "The Burnt Orange Heresy," spoke alongside Donald Sutherland, who plays the role of an artist in the film.

Sutherland was also very critical of President Donald Trump. "Mick is right when he said that the reforms implemented under the Obama administration were barely enough and they are now torn apart, the same thing in Brazil and they will be torn apart in England."

This is not the first time a Rolling Stones member has criticized the US administration. Last year, guitarist Keith Richards said that the United States had to "get rid" of Trump in an interview when he recalled his involvement in a Rolling Stones tour.

"Donald Trump was the promoter for us in Atlantic City and we went to Atlantic City and (he was introduced as" Donald Trump presents "… the Rolling Stones (was written) in miniature," he said. at BBC Radio 4's "Today" program.

"We never have much to do with the promoters, but this one got me in. It was the last time I got angry, I pulled out my trusty blade and I got it stuck to the table saying, "You must get rid of this man. . "

Now, it is the United States that has the problem, suggested Richards. "Now, America has to get rid of it, do not say I did not warn you," he added.

The White House and the British Prime Minister's Office did not respond to CNBC's request for comment at the time of publication.

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