Climate disinformation lecture addresses ‘centrist denial’
Overheated: The Fight For Information, Integrity, Climate Action and Democracy was part of the Stockholm Series of Public Lecturers on Climate Change and Democracy.
Delivered by Jennie King, Director of Climate Policy & Research at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue on 7th May 2024, the lecture looks at the normalisation and mainstream adoption of climate-related conspiracy theories. The exponential increase in scepticism, and an ‘explosion’ in the number of parties that stand to gain from climate inaction are also addressed.
Rather than disinformation being largely driven by a small but powerful group of key stakeholders in the fossil fuel and automotive industries, today threats come from myriad sources. These include online extremists and conspiracy theorists, ‘for-profit disinformers’, ‘outrage merchants’ and far-right actors.
