Powerful voices are rewriting climate reality—and getting away with it.
At a conference in London, politicians, influencers and billionaires call Net Zero "a sinister goal," renewables "impossible," and climate action a "scam".
They weren’t whispering in backrooms, they were building alliances across the West and beyond to kill global climate commitments and reshape public opinion.
The Takeover pulls back the curtain on a rising movement that's weaponizing language, spreading misinformation, and shifting the boundaries of mainstream debate. Hear what they’re saying—and why it matters more than ever.
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Powerful voices are rewriting climate reality—and getting away with it.
At a conference in London, politicians, influencers and billionaires call Net Zero "a sinister goal," renewables "impossible," and climate action a "scam".
They weren’t whispering in backrooms, they were building alliances across the West and beyond to kill global climate commitments and reshape public opinion.
The Takeover pulls back the curtain on a rising movement that's weaponizing language, spreading misinformation, and shifting the boundaries of mainstream debate. Hear what they’re saying—and why it matters more than ever.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Canada’s National Observer teamed up with DeSmog, an online investigative that describes itself as an antidote to science denial and misinformation, on The Takeover project.
We went to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London, a right-wing networking event organized by former U of T professor Jordan Peterson. We observed how speakers spread anti net-zero strategies across a growing conservative network that includes the U.S., the U.K. Europe, Australia and Canada.
ARC’s goal is to reveal ‘the environmental climate scam’ and end the ‘appalling policy’ of net-zero worldwide. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the conference in a video appearance. ‘net zero is a sinister goal’.
Supporters and architects of Project 2025, the roadmap for the Trump administration, which covers almost every aspect of American life and U.S. foreign policy, were at ARC to provide information and encouragement. Jordan Peterson declared that ARC was for ‘conservatives to really push the envelope.”
The move against net-zero and climate commitments is being accelerated by the Trump administration with help from rich power brokers, many of whom work in the fossil fuel industry. And ARC was a place to develop political party platforms, deepen transatlantic alliances and shift to the right, the boundaries of acceptable public debate on net zero.
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