I am a big fan of conspiracy theories though I am not a big believer in them, really I just find it interesting to see the ideas people come up with and how they rationalize things. There are a lot of theories you can tell straight of that bat are just fiction but then there are some that are hard to disprove or prove and a small portion that turn out to be true. I am going to be posting a series of blogs discussing a range of theories and sharing my opinion on them.
When you have seem a plane fly overhead you may have noticed that they leave a trail behind them called a contrail that is water based, conspiracy theorists claim that when these trails are left behind a stay lingering longer than they should it is because they are in fact chemtrails full of harmful chemicals being sprayed above by governments or secret organizations to harm the general public in certain ways.
Most people who believe this believe that they use different chemicals on different occasions with the main uses of; weather modification, psychological manipulation, population control and causing respiratory problems.
Now one of these situations seem most likely to be true and could actually be plausible and that is weather modification, with global warming, extreme weather and many places suffering from long droughts you could see the government doing things like cloud seeding to create more rainfall to counteract harsh droughts. The problem I find with this is that the government wouldn't try and hide this from the general public as it is known that things like cloud seeding exist and can be helpful.
Though it seems a large amount of theorists say that it is other countries governments putting chemicals into the air to make droughts harsher and extreme weather to last longer in attempts to harm the country they target as much as possible. Again this is something that could happen as it has done in the past, weather modification has been used during war to damage a country though it is now banned by the UN.
Most believers of chemtrails are seemingly American and they like to think Russia is using weather modification to harm them. (it's always Russia) Plausible again however I just don't see how they would sneak these chemicals into plains and if it was expected they were why the US government wouldn't run tests to make sure they aren't.
Now all the other explanations to me seem more absurd, firstly psychological manipulation. What are they using to cause these manipulations, they would need not just a chemical that can effect the brain but that can also be diploid accurately, that dissipates relatively quickly as to not travel to areas you don't want to harm and that is untraceable. Now to me that seems hugely unlikely that and group or government would be able to pull this off as there are so many things that could go wrong. From my knowledge most chemicals used to manipulate the mind to make people susceptible to an outside influence so you need that influence to make use of the chemical and where does that influence come from.
Population control again not very plausible, firstly look at population growth over the past 50 years and then look at the areas where it has started to drop in more recent times. If you look into human geography you would see some obvious trends, the main one being as a country grows and advances so does its population until population peaks and other advances still take place, the reason being women being treated more equally and getting better jobs as a result. Then many women chose work over reproduction helping to lower population. The other main factor is as healthcare gets better you don't need to have 5+ children in hopes that a few survive and you don't need them for work so naturally families become smaller.
Lastly is negative respiratory effects which there isn't much need for with the amount of fossil fuels being burnt, smoking, general drug taking and unhealthy living people are doing it to themselves. Also an argument against all these points is you can't hide from chemtrails so if people use it on their own country it hits them as well.
