We are at the dawn of an unprecedented climate crisis, and the Conservatives are showing their priority by launching an online petition, in the wake of the Summit on plastic pollution and Bill C-380, to save the straws… in plastic !
We suspect that this new love of Pierre Poilievre’s troops for these disappearing straws hides a desire to preserve this market linked to the oil sector (plastic is made from oil), which already reaps billions in profits. each year with its other commercial activities.
This conservative maneuver obviously consists of opposing any legislation that could harm the oil industry, even the most insignificant one, with the aim of delaying as long as possible an inevitable environmental policy that relegates it to the side of the use of oil.
Conservatives often appeal to common sense in their speeches, even in the case of this petition as in their opposition to the carbon market or when they treat this international summit as a “radical meeting”, while real common sense is located on the opposite, in the sustainability of the human race before the profit of the oil companies and in the rejection of conservative ideas in the environment of another time by the voters who will use their common sense in the next elections, we hope. .
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