Ecologists: “World’s Ongoing Environmental Disasters Are Not Natural”

The northern lights that could be seen in recent days in much of the world, the floods that have hit many countries from Brazil to Afghanistan, causing hundreds of deaths and millions of displaced people, the severe drought that has brought African agriculture to its knees, the floods and unusual frosts in Russia that are destroying vast areas of farmland, causing inestimable losses, “all of these phenomena are not natural at all.”

Conspiracy theories are multiplying on social media around the world, with environmental activists once again blaming HAARP, the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, a US Pentagon project, which, according to the official version, “studies the ionosphere,” while proponents of conspiracy theories claim that huge “weather” antennas located in Alaska can influence the climate and even cause natural disasters of various types, from floods to earthquakes.

Many experts, including Nick Begich, who died under very mysterious circumstances after denouncing the HAARP project as a “climatic weapon” in one of his books, argue that the technology could be used as a climate control tool capable of creating hurricanes, cyclones, earthquakes, and even controlling temperature and precipitation.

International news agencies quote millions and millions of posts on these “conspiracy theories” that go viral on social media. “What is happening in Rio Grande do Sul is totally unnatural. Let’s open our eyes!” write different versions from several users on X (formerly Twitter). “Taken together,” writes Italian news agency AGI, “the theories paint a disturbing picture that somehow denies climate change while blaming governments and scientific institutions that allegedly orchestrate planned tragedies for unclear reasons.”

Floods and frosts that have been covering vast areas of Russia, from the European part to Siberia, for several weeks now have destroyed millions of hectares of agricultural land. “Climate change is drowning Russia: rivers are overflowing in Orsk and Orenburg, a dam collapses, 156 thousand houses are under water,” writes the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. A state of natural disaster has been declared in many territories of the Russian Federation. Russia’s grain exports are at risk, which will inevitably cause a price hike worldwide and hit hard many countries in the Global South, which are experiencing a period of abnormal drought and lack of grain, and the Russian government has been providing grain to the neediest countries for a year now, without which they would face a famine of biblical proportions.