“There Have Always Been Storms, Floods and Forest Fires”

He thought about what he had heard about climate change on a television show one evening.

It was almost two years ago now, but he could still clearly see the face of the man being interviewed, a well-known conspiracy theorist who for years had built an online money machine by constructing and spreading conspiratorial theories to a growing audience about the secret, hidden game played by those in power, governments and politicians.

The followers of this man never seemed to get enough of the terrifying, “ultra-secret” and sometimes macabre stories that he told on his online “news” platform about social leaders, politicians and their allies keeping small children captive in the basement under a pizzeria at a specific address in a named city.

According to the most extreme details of this conspiracy theory, the prison guards killed children they captured and ate them.

Journalists who investigated the case soon discovered that there were no basements under the named pizzeria. The well-known conspiracy theorist gradually changed the address of the pizzeria premises, but the story had long since fulfilled its intended function and disappeared more and less from the news headlines.

The man who was invited to the studio had a slightly overweight, stocky body. When he spoke and wanted to emphasize a point, his voice was powerful and confident. Occasionally, when the presenter tried to stop him and get a question in, he would talk in and out, and there was a couple of times a cacophony of the voices of the two men fighting to have the floor.

When he got excited or wanted to emphasize a point, he raised his voice and almost shouted with a jarring emphasis. When he became eager, he spoke more quickly, but included occasional pauses where he let the words hang in the air between those in the TV studio.

“Climate change,” he said, “this so-called climate crisis, all this talk, it’s just a fabrication, a false flag operation carried out by the government.

Collusive politicians, governments and social leaders all over the world — they have invented this to deceive us. They manipulate us, quite simply! 9/11 — what was that? I’ve said it before!”

He spoke with large hand gestures, to emphasize his words. He raised his voice, slammed his hand on the table confidently and convincingly, to make it very clear that what he was saying was the truth.

“Yeah,” he said, slapping his hand on the table confidently, “that, it was a staged attack, a giant cover operation set up by this global, covert, conspiratorial alliance of top brass, governments and politicians, with the help of a bunch of actors and directors. — And climate crisis, you say? — Ha-ha! Haven’t there always been storms and floods, maybe! Haven’t there always been forest fires! Yes, it has!”

This is an excerpt from Chapter 6, The Last Human in the Milky Way, a novel.

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