DISINFO: Baltic states followed Greta Thunberg's agenda, it resulted in complete degradation and dying

DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS

  • Outlet: Rubaltic.ru ( archive, original )
  • Date of publication: September 30, 2019
  • Countries / regions discussed: Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia

DISINFO: Baltic states followed Greta Thunberg's agenda, it resulted in complete degradation and dying

SUMMARY

Greta Thunberg proposed the UN General Assembly to deny the achievements of human civilisation, neglect economic development and material well-being for the sake of saving nature. This “positive agenda” is not new, it was made a reality in the Baltic states after the USSR collapsed. They fought the so-called “legacy of occupation” using ecological slogans. This all resulted in the complete degradation of the Baltic states. The Western liberal ruling elite promotes the programme of the future through Greta. This programme is extremely regressive as it denies human creative powers, science and progress and proposes the past to the world. The Baltic states made this programme of deliberate simplification, degradation, and archaisation real. Under the mottoes for saving nature, they run through the Bacchanalia of de-industrialisation and de-intellectualisation. The Baltic States can take some credit for the ecological situation though. The remaining small population only happens to be bothered by beavers and wild boars walking in downtown Riga. Hence, the path proposed by Greta Thunberg leads to the dying-out as the case of the Baltic states proves.

RESPONSE

This disinformation message combines conspiracy theories, ungrounded generalisations and simplifications, and is aimed to downsize the pressing problem of climate change, discredit both the ecological agenda and the Baltic states. It follows recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about extreme socio-economic difficulties in the Baltic states and Greta Thunberg as a mouthpiece of powerful political forces with hidden agenda. See earlier disinformation cases alleging that the Baltic states are dying because they chose not to be with Russia and that Lithuania will be depopulated in 20 years, that decaying Latvia and Lithuania envy Belarus its strategic relations with Russia and that Greta Thunberg is a political tool, whose key targets for “green blows” will be Russia and China.

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