cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17586464
Threat level: NATO has also found that its adversaries, chiefly Russia, are spreading climate and energy-transition-related disinformation in order to undermine political will for climate action.
- It cites an uptick in Russian disinformation tied to the European green energy transition on social media and on online news sites. Russia, a major producer of oil and gas, has an interest in slowing the transition to renewable energy sources.
- Disaster-related disinformation is another emerging trend, which seeks to impair NATO members’ ability to respond effectively. This was observed, for example, in association with the deadly fire in Lahaina, Maui, in August of last year, the report states.
- Russia, for example, sought to benefit from that by spreading the narrative that the U.S. should be aiding its own citizens in Hawai’i instead of Ukraine, the report notes.
What they’re saying: “Russia and other NATO adversaries use climate disinformation to sow division, delay action, and cynically undermine the public understanding of climate change in ways that put people in harm’s way during climate-exacerbated disasters,” Kate Cell, a senior climate campaign manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told Axios.
In my part of Ontario we have near-intolerably hot summers already and people say they miss proper snowy winters. There’s more worry about tornadoes and severe flooding these days, about crops failing, and about what happens to the Great Lakes, especially when the USA starts running out of water. I don’t know who you’ve been talking to but there are also many Canadians who don’t see climate change as at all welcome.
That said, people do keep voting Conservative or not voting at all, so they’re not helping.
Canada has seasons? I thought it just had cold, and geese…and a gun nut neighbor.