Published on April 18, 2017
We are living in the golden era of conspiracy theories.
Today, anyone can use their phone to doctor photos and prove Mark Zuckerberg and Beyoncé are shape-shifting lizard people. The internet incubates fringe ideas into full-blown news narratives. A demagogue can build an entire presidential campaign on baseless fabrications that resonate with the paranoid populace.
One of Donald Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories, which he returns to time and time again, is that climate change is a hoax that China created to make America less competitive. Where did this notion come from? And does it hold any truth? We explore the climate change conspiracy on this episode of I Want To Believe.
