joshpeck:

how is a fourth grader able to run for president

But carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant, they’re just greenhouse gases.
For example, nitrogen dioxide is a pollutant, sulphur dioxide is a pollutant, but carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
Would you call water vapour a pollutant? No, because that’s a greenhouse gas too.
Plus, all life on Earth would be polluters if carbon dioxide is a pollutant because well, all of us emit carbon dioxide by way of respiration, even plants and bacteria.