{"id":329689,"date":"2026-08-05T07:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329689"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:49:13","slug":"how-the-climate-agenda-is-being-pushed-into-our-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329689","title":{"rendered":"How the Climate Agenda is Being Pushed into Our TV Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Gill \u2013 The Daily Sceptic Aug 4, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

This week, The Great British Sewing Bee<\/em><\/a> managed to push the climate agenda into its otherwise harmless show in what was termed \u201cReduce, Re-use, Recycle Week\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sewers were given three tasks \u201cfocused on the environment and sustainability\u201d: first to create underpants from old t-shirts; second to transform material intended for landfill into \u201ca garment with drama at the back\u201d; and third to make outfits with an environmental message.<\/p>\n

The third challenge was by far the most ideologically heavy-handed. \u201cThroughout history, fashion has been used as a tool for protest, a statement for resistance and a spark for social change,\u201d began presenter Sophie Willan, introducing the task to contestants. \u201cSo the judges want you to create an outfit with an environmental message that\u2019s close to your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

When quizzed later about the impetus for the challenge, Sewing Bee<\/em> judge Patrick Grant told Willan: \u201cFashion designers have always been people that are kind of very socially engaged, and a big part of that is them having strong views on all sorts of things, and they want to put those forward through the clothes that they make.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily the designers didn\u2019t seem to mind having their \u201cstrong views\u201d decided for them by the judges and programme creators. \u201cIt is incredibly important to be environmentally conscious. Because we\u2019re killing the planet,\u201d one sewer was filmed saying. Another making a \u201cSave Our Seas\u201d protest dress was asked by Grant: \u201cWhy is the plastic thing so important to you?\u201d She replied: \u201cIt\u2019s so detrimental to the animals and the beauty of the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show also featured a segment with a fashion historian on how \u201cfashion has been at the heart of many protest movements\u201d, from the Suffragettes and the Women\u2019s Social and Political Union, to Black Lives Matter and environment activists. The message was clear: environmental activism makes you anti-Establishment, rather than utterly conformist and useful to the extremely wealthy eco industry.<\/p>\n

As if that wasn\u2019t enough indoctrination, this same week the BBC streamed The Rapture<\/em>, a psychological thriller based on the book by self-described \u201cclimate and ecological fiction writer\u201d Liz Jensen. It follows Bethany Krall, a 17 year-old locked in a high-security psychiatric hospital who can predict the future \u2013 including adverse weather events. \u201cAs temperatures rise, a convicted murderer foretells apocalyptic disaster \u2013 is she a manipulative psychopath or does she know the truth? High-stakes thriller crackling with danger,\u201d reads the BBC description of the show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rapture<\/em> is packed with references to climate change, and it soon becomes obvious who the goodies and baddies are meant to be \u2013 the latter often being people who say the UK needs a mixed energy portfolio including oil (how evil!) In one scene, a goodie character explains how a baddie organisation was \u201clobbying to overturn Net Zero\u201d (the horror!)<\/p>\n

Viewers will have no idea that the show was informed by climate consultants from the organisation Climate Spring<\/a>, whose funders include the Wellcome Trust (which received \u00a3105,998,100 from taxpayers between 2020-24), Unbound Philanthropy (based in the US), and Luminate, the philanthropic arm of Pierre Omidyar, a French-born Iranian-American who founded eBay. Why are these foreign funders helping to promote climate narratives on British TV, you might quite reasonably wonder.<\/p>\n

Climate Spring works with ITV, Channel 4 and many others (such as Mammoth Screen, which produced The Rapture<\/em>) to embed climate narratives into film and TV. It is a partner of the Climate Playwriting Prize, in which a winner will be optioned for Shakespeare\u2019s Globe<\/a>, among other initiatives.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to \u2018Edutainment\u2019: entertainment that tries to \u2018educate\u2019 viewers into political positions, in this case on the climate. Shockingly, for years the taxpayer- and National-Lottery-funded Arts Council England (ACE) has been asking artists to show their commitment to \u201cEnvironmental Responsibility<\/a>\u201d when applying for grants. This is listed as one of ACE\u2019s four \u201cInvestment Principles\u201d, which also include \u201cInclusivity and Relevance\u201d.<\/p>\n

Personally, I find it very hard to make sense of the science on climate change: it\u2019s an enormously complex subject that I am not an expert on. What I do know is that using drama to promote climate narratives is a quick way to suggest your side deals in fiction.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Gill regularly publishes about the use of taxpayers\u2019 money to fund Left-wing causes and Left-wing researchers in\u00a0<\/em>Woke Waste, her Substack. You can subscribe\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A new BBC drama with Net Zero-sceptics as the baddies, a TV game show with a heavy-handed “Environment Week” \u2013 Charlotte Gill looks at how TV is being used to subliminally indoctrinate viewers about the \u2018climate crisis’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":329691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ClimateGate","category-mind_control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329690,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329689\/revisions\/329690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}