Social media posts are baselessly twisting a U.N. resolution about sustainable development and an urban-planning concept called smart cities into a dystopian plot that may be underway after the train derailment and chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio.
If that weren’t enough conspiracy theories, this plot insinuates that the Feb. 3 train derailment and toxic chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio, may be the start of it all.
"The laws governing Agenda 2030 land development allows the government to seize polluted lands and move their residents to … smart cities," a woman said in ashared on Instagram."If you’re living somewhere where your land and water is poisoned, you don’t get an option to opt out. Hmmm, where has land and water been poisoned recently?"
The woman described smart cities as places where the government will track citizens’ personal habits and limit their movements in real time, using a digital ID.
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