The skeptic movement is a collective endeavor that promotes the respect for knowledge and truth, methodological naturalism, science, reason, critical thinking, and consumer protection, and aims to distinguish legitimate science from pseudoscience, uphold ideological freedom, understand cognitive biases, address specific flawed or pseudoscientific claims, maintain cultural memory of past pseudosciences and scams, and improve science communication and journalism.
This has spread even to the UK, and literally nobody is saying people shouldn't travel outside the 15 minute area. I sometimes think people just want to be angry about something
Despite the conspiracy theories, the plan is designed to reduce transit time and greenhouse gas emissions, improving urban life and combatting climate change.
I think there is an actual conspiracy, with facts and evidence, that oil companies have cultivated an audience of meme and marketing message consumers to believe consuming as much oil as possible is good for the future of the economy. This large audience who lacks self-awareness of just how powerful images and symbols of big corporations have become in their minds. Compulsive defenders of the established iconic oil industry without using reason thinking to understand the science of climate change problems. Even the politics of Levant and Russian oil conflicts seem to not be a concern in their loyalty to the branding of oil sellers.