Former Climate Activist Wakes Up and Drops Truth Bombs All Over the Green Scam [WATCH]

Former climate activist Lucy Biggers said her views on climate policy and messaging changed after years inside the movement, experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, and reviewing scientific and policy literature she said challenged the prevailing narrative.

Biggers, who now serves as head of social media for the Free Press, said she spent much of her early adulthood advocating for mainstream climate causes before reassessing those positions.

“I think I need to do a little reintroduction for people on here who I am. So I’m Lucy Biggers right now. I’m the head of social media for the free press. But for five years of my 20s, I was a climate activist,” Biggers said.

“I interviewed Greta Thunberg. I’ve interviewed AOC. I pushed ideas like the green New Deal, plastic straw bands, plastic bag bans, anything you could think of that is like the typical climate activist.”

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Biggers said her involvement provided a sense of belonging and purpose, but she also encountered contradictions she initially dismissed.

“I got a lot of value from being part of the group I identified as a climate activist, and I thought I was on the right side of history,” she said.

“Even during the time when I was really deep in the climate movement, I would have some questions like, Why we’re protesting pipelines when you know the pipelines were already approved.”

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She said she later recognized that some policies she supported conflicted with environmental realities.

“Or the fact that, like you know, oil pipelines are better for the environment and safer than transporting these materials on trains,” Biggers said.

“Or, you know, the idea that plastic has a lower carbon footprint than glass and wood.”

Biggers said those doubts intensified after leaving a public-facing role, living through pandemic shutdowns, and becoming a mother.

“That all changed when I left my last job where I’d been in a visible role as a climate influencer, and I lived through covid and I had my first son,” she said.

“Seeing the entire world shut down… and then our carbon emissions only dropping by maybe 5%… barely making a dent in our climate emissions.”

She said that experience raised fundamental questions about the goals of the climate movement.

“And that’s when I started to think, what is the climate movement wanting from us?” Biggers said.

“Because if they want to get our emissions down to zero, that would require destroying our way of life.”

Biggers said reading books including Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger and Unsettled by Steve Koonin further influenced her shift.

“It made me realize that this climate narrative, this black and white thinking that I was pushing… was not true, and that the truth was much more complex,” she said.

After stepping away from public activism, Biggers said she avoided speaking out for years due to pressure within the movement.

“I basically thought I would never be in front of the camera again, because I did not want to go against the group,” she said.

That changed after the birth of her second child, she said, prompting her to speak publicly again.

“I realized, like I did not want to be on my deathbed one day having regrets of sitting on what was the truth because of fear,” Biggers said.

Biggers said her current views focus on historical climate patterns and what she described as the benefits associated with modern development.

“What I think about climate change now is this that climate change is happening if you define it as we’re going through a warming period,” she said.

“We’ve actually been going through this warming period since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 1600s.”

She said warming over the past century has coincided with improvements in quality of life.

“In the last 150 years, we’ve seen 1.3 degrees of warming, which has coincided at the same time with the most human flourishing the world has ever known,” Biggers said.

Biggers also addressed carbon dioxide emissions, arguing they are not inherently harmful.

“And the increase in CO two, we’ve seen global greening go up by 15 to 20% in some areas,” she said.

“CO2 is a plant food, if you remember, from biology class.”

Biggers said her goal now is to present alternative perspectives she believes are missing from mainstream discussion, particularly for younger audiences.

“The goal with my content and my page is to help bridge the gap between this information that’s out there and the climate skeptic realist community,” she said.

She said climate messaging has contributed to anxiety among young people.

“It’s led to a mental health crisis,” Biggers said.

“Young people are reporting having this sort of nihilism about their futures.”

Biggers said she wants younger generations to see what she described as a fuller context.

“We live in a really abundant, safe, prosperous time,” she said. “Climate change isn’t dangerous, and there isn’t a consensus on how much of it we can even control.”

Biggers concluded by encouraging viewers to engage with her content if interested in alternative views on climate policy.

“So that’s me. I’m Lucy. Follow along if you’re interested in this type of content, and thank you for everyone who’s here,” she said.

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