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People working on #Climate Solutions are encountering #disinformation & #ConspiracyTheories about their work.
#ClimateDisinformation in the past —sometimes paid for by #FossilFuel interests— were often misconceptions like #GlobalWarming is a scam or its threat overblown. Those endure, but now there are attacks on #ClimateSolutions… such as attacks on #renewables; e.g. the myth that #WindTurbines cause cancer or birth defects.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/05/1203893268/climate-change-conspiracies-disinformation?origin=NOTIFY
For instance, today NPR has a story about an #UrbanPlanning trend called #15minuteCities —designing cities so that you #access amenities in a short walk, bike ride or trip on public transport. Now there's a #ConspiracyTheory saying that this is a way to restrict people's movement or to trap people in an open-air prison.
#ClimateDisinformation #ClimateSolutions #ClimateCrisis
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1204548952/the-15-minute-city-could-limit-global-warming-if-it-can-counter-misinformation
Podcaster #JoeRogan said on his show last month, “You'll essentially be contained unless you get permission to leave. That's the idea they're starting to roll out in #Europe.”
That ↑ is false.
Yet, the #UK #transport minister #MarkHarper used the same language as those #ConspiracyTheories about #15minuteCities at the #conservative #Tory party conference. "What is sinister & what we shouldn't tolerate is the idea that local councils can decide how often you go to the shops,” Harper said.
That local #UK govts are deciding how often citizens can go shopping is #disinformation.
The false narrative surrounding #15minuteCities is but one part of a larger sprawling #ConspiracyTheory called the #GreatReset. The theory goes that a shadowy global elite (often #Jewish) wants to strip away ordinary people's #freedoms & make us live a life of deprivation. Under this theory, 15-minute cities are a ploy to take away people's freedom to move around.
Different kinds of #disinformation spread in different ways. But in terms of #misleading claims about #climate — that's perpetuated predominantly by #RightWing #media. And that involves an #InformationEcosphere defined by #JoeRogan, as heard above, but also #AlexJones, #Breitbart, the #DailyWire, the #DailyMail, the #NewYorkPost, & above all #FoxNews.
e.g. When #TuckerCarlson was on #FoxNews, he made utterly unsubstantiated claims about dead whales coming ashore on NJ, NY & MA beaches & #ClimateSolutions:
“The government's off-shore wind projects, which are enriching their [read: Biden] donors, are killing a huge number of whales, right now.”
But you hear versions from #Trump (birds & #windmills; people in California stink due to #water #conservation efforts, etc), #MarjorieTaylorGreene, #RobertFKennedyJr, the list goes on.
The #ClimateDisinformation, #ConspiracyTheories & #FearMongering distract from #ClimateSolutions that need the public to participate in & lawmakers to enact. A muddied #information landscape about #climate solutions can often complicate those processes.
@Nonilex are there any noteable articles or books that talk about this great reset?
@tezoatlipoca @Nonilex Probably you don't want to know, it's wild stuff. Best not to poison your brain with it unless you have some compelling reason to do so.
@AGTMADCAT @Nonilex well,was thinking more like how to recognize and combat it.