Earlier this year, a conference was held in the European Parliament to discuss the dangers of nanoplastics. Such an event would not be unusual, were it not for its co-host: a “religious cult” that predicts humanity will go extinct by 2036.
Founded in Ukraine in 2014 and now headquartered in the US, AllatRa presents itself as “a volunteer-driven initiative” studying the climate crisis and natural disasters. Yet its publications advance a radically different explanation for climate change than the scientific consensus. According to reports published by the group, the principal threat comes not from greenhouse gas emissions, but plastic pollution – combined with an “external cosmic” phenomenon that it says takes place every 12,000 years.
In materials that were removed from its website soon after openDemocracy approached for comment, AllatRa warned that “humanity’s very existence could be at serious risk” due to a possible escalation of natural disasters within the next ten years. One now-deleted report claimed that nanoplastics in the world’s oceans are preventing the Earth’s core from cooling, causing seismic activity that will rupture the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean – Earth’s deepest point – and lead to a massive explosion that will destroy the Earth’s “atmosphere, oceans, and magnetic field”.
