I’d say they managed to be vaguely accurate despite their best efforts: co2 is part of normal air and is one of the most harmless “pollutants” we put out, it’s only a problem because the volume is so large and it doesn’t go away, so calling it a pollutant is somewhat borderline, it’s not comparable to cfcs, lead, carbon monoxide, which are more traditional “literally poison” pollutants.
All of which misses the point that whether it’s a pollutant or not it’s still slowly but surely ruining the planet for everyone.
In other words: if they’d rather describe it as a dangerously imbalanced byproduct, that’s perfectly reasonable, but really doesn’t change anything:
I’d say they managed to be vaguely accurate despite their best efforts: co2 is part of normal air and is one of the most harmless “pollutants” we put out, it’s only a problem because the volume is so large and it doesn’t go away, so calling it a pollutant is somewhat borderline, it’s not comparable to cfcs, lead, carbon monoxide, which are more traditional “literally poison” pollutants.
All of which misses the point that whether it’s a pollutant or not it’s still slowly but surely ruining the planet for everyone.
In other words: if they’d rather describe it as a dangerously imbalanced byproduct, that’s perfectly reasonable, but really doesn’t change anything: