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June 11, 2026

Fossil-fuel industry’s misinformation campaign working

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In the battle between the fossil-fuel industry and the environmentalists, to shape the planet’s future ecosystems, the fossil-fuel industry is clearly winning because they have gained control of the belief systems of their opponents.

They’ve done this by using expensive media campaigns to replace real environmental problems, with fictitious and nonexistent environmental problems.

The greatest treatise ever written for protection of the environment and something that is thus a direct threat to big oil and coal, is the UN Agenda 21 policy. Yet virtually every local environmentalist now believes Agenda 21 is a sinister plan to enslave humanity.

A casual perusal of Youtube for ‘Agenda 21’ will convince most people that Agenda 21 is a terrible thing. Yet anyone who takes the trouble to actually read Agenda 21 will discover it is the best document for protecting the environment ever written.

Large numbers of local people now believe that a radar station known as HAARP and the water vapour trails behind passenger jet planes, are the true cause of climate change and extreme weather events. Can you see how the fossil fuel industry benefits from environmentalists having these false beliefs?

‘If you want to control the opposition, then lead the opposition’, has become the fossil fuel industry mantra.

Peter Olson, Goonengerry

 



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