Throwback 2025: In a rallying address at Yale University in the US, former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern told students their humility and sensitivity are what the world needs more of as she described the current state of the world as an “all-out dumpster fire”.
“There’s the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity, the daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power,” she said.
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[Originally posted in May 2025]
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