Climate change influencer once chums with Greta Thunberg now calls the movement a 'scam'

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A decade ago, Lucy Biggers was like many people in their 20s. She believed that climate change posed an immediate and catastrophic risk to mankind, that we should rapidly eliminate fossil fuels to address the problem, that renewables are up to that task, and that our wealthy, privileged lives in the West are a mark of shame.

At that time, Biggers worked for the climate outlet NowThis Entertainment, where she helped make videos, some of which garnered millions of views promoting these ideas. She interviewed Swedish celebrity climate activist Greta Thunberg and helped New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get elected in 2018. She built up a sizable following as a “sustainability influencer.”

Over time, Biggers began to question her leftist ideals, and she started to see the climate movement as anti-human and ultimately harmful. She now calls the climate movement a “scam,” and she’s making videos on TikTok and elsewhere in hopes that young people will consider a more positive view of modern life, one they can hopefully be grateful for. In turn, they can escape the anxiety she says the climate movement causes young people to feel.

Those who followed her for her work with NowThis are not happy about this new message.


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