Outlaw the Lie: Why Denying Climate Change Must Become a Crime in CARICOM

The time for polite debate is over. It is now a matter of survival. we write today to call—firmly and without apology—for the criminalisation of climate change denial across Jamaica and all CARICOM member states. Moreover, we urge that the deliberate misrepresentation of non-renewable energy technologies as "green" or "renewable" must henceforth be treated under the law as criminal fraud, prosecutable in open court.

This is no longer merely an academic or political issue. This is existential. And it is time our legal frameworks caught up with the urgency of our moment.

A World Court Ruling—And a Warning

On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s highest legal authority, issued a historic advisory opinion that categorically declares: States are legally obligated to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and protect the climate. This ruling was not philosophical or suggestive. It was legal and moral in weight. Countries that breach their environmental obligations under agreements such as the Paris Agreement can be held legally responsible and may be required to make full reparation.

This was hailed as "a victory for our planet" by UN Secretary-General António Guterres—a recognition of the legal and moral imperative to transition to renewable energy and protect future generations from climate collapse.

And yet, even with this definitive ruling on the table, in the Caribbean we continue to tolerate—no, to platform—climate denialists. Worse still, we allow willful misinformation to be laundered through pseudoscientific rhetoric, funded think-tanks, and high-sounding academic fronts.

This must end. There is blood on the hands of denialists.

From Speech to Crime: Why the Law Must Intervene

Free speech is a sacred democratic value. But when that speech knowingly promotes falsehoods that cause catastrophic, avoidable harm, it crosses into criminal territory.

We do not permit the public incitement of genocide. We do not tolerate the peddling of knowingly fake medicines that kill patients. And yet, we tolerate those who deny climate change and obstruct action, even though such denial accelerates a planetary crisis that is already killing millions.

By any moral and rational standard, deliberate climate denial—especially when issued in collusion with polluting industries, under cover of pseudonyms and PR—is a form of eco-terrorism. It undermines action, sows confusion, and derails urgent policy shifts. It must be recognised as a criminal act.

The same must apply to the willful misrepresentation of fossil or nuclear technologies as "renewable". To claim that a fossil-derived or radioactive energy source is "green" in the face of overwhelming scientific contradiction is to commit criminal fraud—especially when such claims result in the redirection of public funds, delay renewable adoption, or endanger public health.

The Caribbean's Unique Vulnerability—and Responsibility

CARICOM nations, especially island states like Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Barbados, and Dominica, face a cruel paradox. Though we contribute minimally to global GHG emissions, we are among the first and worst impacted: rising seas, stronger hurricanes, acidified fisheries, dying reefs, and disappearing coastlines. Climate denial is not a policy dispute for us—it is an existential betrayal.

We owe it to our citizens, our children, and our regional cohesion to outlaw the denial of climate science and the promotion of fraudulent greenwashing.

Already, young people from the Pacific have helped bring this matter to the World Court. Our young people, our schools, and our universities in the Caribbean must not be left behind—nor misled.

Naming the Enemy: Manufactured Consensus and the Billioneering Puppeteer

This brings me to a critical point.

There is a billioneering character operating in Jamaica and across the Caribbean, who publishes under at least seven different pseudonyms to create the false illusion of a broad consensus against climate science, carbon reduction, and renewable energy mandates.

This character—whose online aliases all echo the same climate-denialist rhetoric—poses as a scientist, a concerned citizen, a data analyst, a technologist, an investment adviser, and a policy critic. But always with the same script: cast doubt, delay action, elevate fossil solutions, and ridicule environmentalists as "zealots", or "hysterics." The character is destined to ask this of us: "Were you high when you wrote this or are you usually this incoherent?"

What do we call this behaviour?

Fraud. Coordinated, cynical, damaging fraud.

And when this fraud misleads investors, policymakers, or educators, and results in further emissions, illness, or inaction, it becomes more than an ethical lapse—it becomes legally actionable harm.

This manufactured chorus of confusion is not free speech. It is industrial deception—designed to insulate wealthy polluters from responsibility. And it is amplified in the Caribbean by opportunists hoping to catch crumbs from billion-dollar fossil and SMR contracts.

We must expose and outlaw this strategy, before it buries our region beneath the waves.

Education, Truth, and Consequences

A recent online commentator insightfully lamented that Caribbean curricula are still trapped in the colonial era. True enough. But worse still, our institutions—especially UWI and the Mona School of Business and Management and too many tourism ministries—have been slow to reject fossil propaganda or to meaningfully update syllabi and training.

Indeed, while young Pacific Islanders were moving the World Court, some of our own regional voices were still mocking climate concern as “hysteria,” comparing it to blind faith in pastors.

But let’s be clear: Climate change is not a religion. It is an evidence-based reality, affirmed by physics, satellite data, biodiversity collapse, and human suffering.

To deny climate science now is not merely wrong. It is deadly.

To mislabel uranium-fuelled Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as "renewable" is not a difference of opinion. It is an actionable lie.

To delay emission cuts by quoting bad-faith objections about model inaccuracies or CO₂’s greenhouse potency is not critical thinking. It is calculated obstruction.

Legal Reform Is Urgently Needed

We therefore urge the following:

1. Criminalise the denial of anthropogenic climate change within CARICOM jurisdictions.

2. Classify the court-proven misrepresentation of non-renewable technologies as renewable as a form of criminal fraud.

3. Mandate the inclusion of climate truth in all CARICOM school and university curricula, with penalties for deliberate distortion.

4. Establish a regional public registry of funded lobbyists, influencers, and "experts" whose public statements align with fossil or nuclear industry interests.

Final Words

To "Insight4Sight", "VX/Truth", "Cliry", "Robert Campbell" and his several other billioneering puppet aliases, we repeat Proverbs 17:28:

“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise…”

Pause. Breathe. Reflect. Then perhaps you may see what millions already see—that the time to act is now, and the time for lies and the sundry 'Three Card Man' of Caribbean energy has passed.

If we are serious about climate justice, Caribbean survival, and the future of our children, then we must be equally serious about criminalising the deceit that seeks to destroy them.

Let this be our regional Nuremberg moment—not after the planet has burned, but now—while we still have time to prevent the crime.

PS: What freedom of Dutch/English speech are Minister Javier Silvania and The Peoples Tribune up to in: (20+) GREAT BAY/WILLEMSTAD--With the lessons of... - The Peoples' Tribune | Facebook of July 23, 2025?