In an op-ed in The Diplomat, James Gomez from Asia Centre discusses how climate disinformation does not merely mislead public understanding of environmental issues. In the Philippine context, it is strategically deployed to reinforce red-tagging narratives, portraying Indigenous resistance to mining, energy, and infrastructure projects as both anti-development and a threat to national security. By recasting environmental defenders as obstacles to “sustainable development” or even as “terrorists,” climate disinformation provides the ideological justification for state violence.
