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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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Fucking UCP government just deep in the pockets of Big Oil. Just rename yourself The Oil Sands Political Party and at least be honest about it, ya fucking loser assholes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

They're not so much in the pockets of big oil so much as they literally are big oil. At least a part of it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Of all the places on earth that might conceivably come out slightly ahead on climate change, Canada and Russia are two of the biggest.

Can't help but feel these two countries consistently being some of the worst on per capita emissions isn't a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Canada was created as a colonialist apparatus, that exists to facilitate the extraction of natural and human resources, and transfer them to private ownership. It's literally the reason the country exists, and it has never been reformed. We just cover it up with PR. We don't emit greenhouse gasses because we are trying to terraform the planet, it's just the most profitable way to exploit our resources right now.