(...) In a global context, when looking at the polluted nature of Asian, Indian and African countries, the rivers flowing full of waste and plastic debris, and China's extensive industrialisation, we can already consider Latvia to be a green country. With its clean waters, well-tended land, and excellently maintained, managed forests. Consequently, there is hope that this process of change will not significantly affect our lives.

(...) However, when reading some of the available documents and guidelines regarding this green course, we see that they speak very little about clearing nature of pollution or about ecological problems, but directly address issues of transforming economic and financial systems. This makes the green course unclear and incomprehensible to the public.

(...) If we are talking about what is currently happening in the world, it is certainly the creation of a global financial market based on environmental solutions. Based on the need to urgently address global environmental issues, measures are being taken to transform public opinion in the direction of restructuring the financial system and changing people's lifestyles.

The ecological problems discussed every day in the mass media are merely a way to mobilise society for such changes. This type of propaganda works on the human subconscious, and the best results are achieved if anxiety and fear are constantly generated within society. This is why the rhetoric employs assertions such as: in 50 years, global warming will cause half of the Earth's landmass to be submerged; the destruction of biodiversity will lead to famine; people will no longer be able to live on this planet; and global climate change will lead to storms and other negative consequences that will destroy humanity. These are assertions that are not scientifically grounded and exist only at the level of hypotheses.
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