A proposal to stop labelling carbon dioxide as a pollutant and instead celebrate it as a "foundational nutrient for all life on Earth” will be up for debate at the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting in November.

There’s already been a vetting process to weed out some resolutions, but this one made it through, which suggests “someone in the party thinks that this is worth debating,” Young said.

“I think this reminds us that the base of the UCP is host to a pretty substantial group of people who do not believe that climate change is real, or they don’t believe that it is driven by human activity, and they think that any actions taken to transition away from fossil fuels are unnecessary.”

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    If these were the kinds of people who also planted a thousand trees a year and are seriously into conservation, I’d believe it, but they usually aren’t.

    It’s like anti-abortion people who run maternal- and children’s-welfare agencies and give a ton of money to help orphans, work school-lunch programs, etc. They’re about the only ones who are allowed to have that opinion, and they’re vanishingly rare, dwarfed by the kind that just a) hate women and/or b) want to vice-signal.