Canadian Conservatives Want To Deny Global Warming Science: It's A UN Plot To Depopulate The World

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Tom Harris isn’t convinced that Pierre Poilievre, the frontrunner to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, thinks that the climate emergency is real. “I don’t think Pierre Poilievre does,” Harris told The Tyee. “I’ve spoken to various people who work with him, and they implied that. But they couldn’t just say outright that he doesn’t believe it.” The reason for this? Because Poilievre’s competitors for the leadership “would jump on him.” Harris speaks as one who publicly disputes the fundamentals of climate science. In fact, he’s taken that stance in the Financial Post and other mainstream Canadian media not just lately but for decades.

Back in the early 2000s, he was legislative assistant to Canadian Alliance MP Bob Mills, helping write press releases where his boss claimed that “the science of climate change is immature.” Harris has since then been a frequent speaker at conferences put on by the Heartland Institute, a think tank that currently argues “most scientists do not believe human greenhouse gas emissions are a proven threat to the environment or to human well-being.” His denialism reflects the views of many who tend to vote Conservative, Harris claims. And that schism — between Conservatives who acknowledge the climate crisis is real and those who don’t — poses a big problem for whoever is chosen to be the next leader of the party.

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A dramatic example of this dysfunction could be seen during the Conservative party’s 2021 policy convention, when then-leader O’Toole told delegates that the debate on whether global warming is happening “is over” and that the party “cannot ignore the reality of climate change.” “We need to boldly reclaim the environment as an area where Conservatives are leaders,” he said, or else risk being branded as “climate change deniers.” Grassroots members were unconvinced. By a margin of 54 percent to 46 percent, they voted down a proposal that would have added language saying that “climate change is real” and the party is “willing to act” to the Conservative policy book. “I’m not sure why it’s necessary for the Conservative party to declare climate change is real,” one delegate from Scarborough Centre told CBC at the time.

The strongest opposition to the policy resolution reportedly came from delegates from western provinces, where the oil and gas industry looms large as an employer and a political flashpoint. But opposition was also catalyzed by a less obvious source: an anti-abortion group. In the lead-up to the convention, Campaign Life Coalition, an influential player in the conservative base, issued a voter’s guide instructing delegates to vote against the climate resolution, claiming that: “The science on man-made global warming theory is in dispute. Global warming is being used by global elites and the United Nations to advance population control through abortion and sterilization.”

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https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/06/21/Conservative-Grassroots-Climate-Deniers/

[TigressDem]

1. Oh boy.

“I’m not sure why it’s necessary for the Conservative party to declare climate change is real,” one delegate from Scarborough Centre told CBC at the time.



UMMMM, I D K.... you LIKE the Planet you are living on and don't want it to burn in Hell BEFORE the Apocalypse?

[2naSalit]

2. Where have we heard this...

Entire line of bullshit before?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Just like the claim that Covid is intended to reduce population.

As bad as Covid is, far, far more people are born than die every day.

The reality is that 7 billion plus people is far beyond the carrying capacity of this planet, even without global warming. There really need to be no more than a billion people, and getting that kind of reduction is going to be catastrophic in other ways.