Climate change: The Kenyan farmer promoting denial - BBC Trending podcast, BBC World Service

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2024-08-12

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Jusper Machogu is a farmer from southwestern Kenya who describes himself as a “climate sceptic”: he wrongly claims that climate ...
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  • Here is tea.

  • And that's how we plug tea.

  • Two leaves, one, two and a bud.

  • This is 29 year old Jasper Machogu.

  • He's a farmer and he lives in Kisi, southwest Kenya.

  • Once you get used to it, you don't have to count one.

  • Too bad, it's so easy.

  • On social media, he posts videos like these ones, offering a window into his day to day life.

  • So this is what people do throughout the day.

  • You can see Jasper weeding, cutting corn, picking avocados.

  • Yeah, that is it.

  • It's a typical day in Kisi.

  • But make no mistake, Jasper is not your average farmer.

  • His farming videos may get clicks, likes and retweets, but it's the fringe views he shares online that have supercharged his profile.

  • We have people cooking with firewood and you telling us that we should care about climate change.

  • What is climate change anyway?

  • A hoax?

  • A scam?

  • At least according to Jasper's tweets.

  • He wrongly claims that climate change is not man made or real for that matter, but rather a ploy by the west to keep Africa poor.