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Alberta UCP to vote on celebrating CO2, and not recognizing it as pollutant (www.nationalobserver.com)
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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.”

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"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."

Or they're just jerks who know it's real, but don't care and are looking to virtue (vice?) signal their right-wing bona fides.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have a coworker that says we need more CO2 in the atmosphere. 🙄

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

you know, you really are a moron

usually puts a damper on all future interactions with those kind of people.