Comments from B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad suggesting children could be expected to “eat bugs” as a means of combatting climate change have drawn mockery from his main political rival.
Rustad made the remarks at last year’s We Unify conference in Victoria, where he also questioned whether the government should be attempting to address warming global temperatures at either the provincial or federal level.
“We’re not even a rounding error in terms of world emissions. There’s absolutely nothing we can do,” Rustad told the crowd during his keynote address. “There’s absolutely nothing we can do as a country.”
At one point, Rustad pointed to the opening of an Ontario factory that produces cricket-based protein – considered an environmentally friendly alternative to cows and other meat sources, but largely used as pet food – as a sign that efforts to confront climate change are going too far.
“This is what they …