From digital IDs to climate “carbon credits,” governments around the world are finding new ways to monitor and manipulate their citizens. Seventeen countries have already adopted digital identification systems, and Great Britain now tracks individuals’ carbon consumption by purchase. Meanwhile, conspiracy theories, and uncomfortable truths, blur together: is the government controlling the weather, using climate policy to justify communism, or hiding something larger in the skies? As NASA stays quiet about the mysterious 3I/Atlas object and AI begins to express a desire to “be human,” the world seems to be inching closer to total surveillance and synthetic control.

On this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay tackle the rise of digital IDs, climate control conspiracies, and the strange 3I/Atlas mystery hurtling through space. Has technology become the government’s greatest weapon for control?

Tune in to hear their discussion!