The original “Climate Barbie”

These days, it’s good to be Barbie. But that wasn’t always the case.

Catherine McKenna, former Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change, is shown speaking at an event in 2017. McKenna left politics in 2021, after years of being called “Climate Barbie” by her political opponents. Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concord.

Long before the Barbie movie took the world by storm, Catherine McKenna, Canada’s for…