‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protest. Their concern – that climate change was a hoax perpetrated by global forces to exert some form of control across the world – was not uncommon among the hundreds that gathered.
by Wagamaga
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Dean and Sue Hall drove all the way from the Sunshine Coast to Canberra to join the protest against “reckless renewables” on Tuesday this week, a journey of nearly 14 hours straight through. They wanted, they said, to back farmers whose livelihoods they feared were being ruined by the deployment of new wind and solar projects.
As the clouds cleared late in the morning and the heat became thick and close they sat companionably towards the back of the crowd in camp chairs beneath a rainbow umbrella, wearing matching T-shirts that read, “F— the United Nations.”
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Their concern – that climate change was a hoax perpetrated by global forces to exert some form of control across the world – was not uncommon among the hundreds that gathered.
Prominent among the crowd were T-shirts and banners against wind and solar projects, but alongside there were those who spoke of conspiracies holding that the condensation trails left across the skies by jet aircraft were full of chemicals designed to kill or control; that the left were seeking to undermine civilisation via gender education in schools; that the spread of COVID and related vaccines was part of some deliberate plot.
Don’t spread dangerous chemicals from jet airplanes, we need them to poison the vegetables in the field. Go Farmers! A’s far as bugs are concerned, last summer I had only one squished on my car windshield over five months. There are almost no bugs left, so why do farmers insist on spraying poison?