Some Positive PR For Carbon Dioxide?

Carbon dioxide is essential for life, as plants must use it in photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide has had, however, a bad press due to a focus on its role as a major 'greenhouse gas'. It increases global heating, with consequent climate change. The currently hyper-abundant gas also unhelpfully acidifies the oceans and rivers. The PR picture appears to be changing. A supermarket boss maintains that the UK's food supplies are under threat because of a shortage of carbon dioxide (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/20/co2-crisis-could-hit-uk-food-stocks-well-before-christmas-says-iceland-boss ). Sixty percent of the UK's carbon dioxide is produced by 2 US-owned fertiliser plants in Northern England. They have shut down gas production, due to current high energy costs. Hence the shortage. Carbon dioxide has an obvious role in the production of carbonated (fizzy) drinks, including beers. It is also used, however, in slaughterhouses for humane killing (so, no turkey for Christmas?). Carbon dioxide is also used in some packaging, to extend the shelf-life of foods (e.g. salads). Obviously without the gas, 'dry ice', much used in food storage and transport, cannot be made. The 'take home message' must be that carbon dioxide is neither good nor evil. It's all a question of balance.