Testing the Claims: Did Green Energy Really Deliver Western Technological Dominance?

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On August 7, 2024, the YouTube channel “NEWS.BY: news of Belarus and the world” posted a story titled “Where did Argentina’s gold disappear? | The green agenda has gone out of fashion | The presidential race in the USA. Trends”. Broadcast by Andrei Sych.
Let’s look at an extremely clear example of climate disinformation:

The growing economy of Belarus annually increases electricity consumption by more than 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours. At the same time, the operating station has made it possible to replace the consumption of about 9 billion cubic meters of natural gas since the launch of the first power unit. Although, if we proceed from the new logic of the founder of Greenpeace, we have thus caused irreparable damage to nature. The environment has not received such valuable carbon dioxide.
It seems that I accidentally found another reason to impose sanctions against us. In fact, the rollback of the green agenda in the Western media is due to three reasons.
Firstly, it is urgently necessary to justify the mothballed coal mines throughout Europe.
And secondly, the technological race in green energy has completely failed. Today, the main trends in this area are set by China.
Thirdly, it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify to citizens billions of dollars in investments in the construction of new weapons factories, which literally smoke like coal locomotives.
Incidentally, they tried not to talk about this before. In fact, the only world politician who openly raises the hypocrisy of promoting the green agenda to everyone remains the President of Belarus.
In December 2023, at the climate summit, Alexander Lukashenko made a resonant statement, from which many had to lower their eyes to the floor. All the speakers, especially the speakers from the speakers who spoke here first, were concerned about where to get the money. Come on. sitting here, even a journalist will tell you where to get the money. An example. To answer this question, we need to look at recent history. It is estimated that between one and a half and two trillion dollars were spent to destroy Iraq and Afghanistan and bring good to the peoples of these countries. And consider how much money was spent to protect these countries. And how many people died, you can’t estimate this in dollars. Today, there is a war in Ukraine. This is no longer one and a half to two trillion dollars. It will cost five trillion dollars if we manage to agree on peace in the near future. Why is there no peace in this part of the planet today? Because those speakers who spoke in the front rows talk about peace, talk about keeping the planet clean, and taking care of their grandchildren, and at the same time they have unleashed and are waging the most terrible war on the planet.

Our verdict based on the analyses conducted:

Verdict: Incorrect


Reasons:

  • The thesis or statement is completely false: information from several sources or the opinions of several experts in specific area contradict it.
  • Cause and effect relationships and connections clearly do not exist as claimed.
  • When quoting, essential parts are omitted, rearranged, changed or mistranslated from a foreign language, as a result of which the meaning of what was said is fundamentally changed.
  • The event occurred in material respects differently than stated.


Factcheck rating scale

Full video:

We’ll do it analysis of disinformation narratives and semantic analysis of the entire program

Narrative Analysis
Risk Level: High
Criticism of Western politics and ecology

The video criticizes Western approaches to ecology and energy, arguing that they serve the interests of technological dominance and economic gain, rather than real caring for the planet.

appeal to fear

getting personal

parallels with history

Confidence: 85%
Skepticism of international institutions

There is a lack of trust in international institutions and their ability to solve global problems such as climate change and war.

irony

hyperbole

jokes

Confidence: 80%
Support for authoritarian tendencies

The idea of ​​the need for a strong leader who can cope with internal and external challenges is supported, which can be interpreted as support for authoritarian management methods.

appeal to authority

populism

creating an image of the enemy

Confidence: 75%
Overall assessment

The video contains many manipulative techniques aimed at forming a negative perception of Western politics and supporting authoritarian approaches, which can contribute to disinformation and polarization of opinions.

Emotional analysis
Main Topics

Political situation in the USA and Argentina

Environmental agenda and climate change

Geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine

Emotional Analysis
Predominant tone:
negative
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-0.5

Ключевые эмоции:

irony

anxiety

dissatisfaction

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