Lucy Biggers: “It was the first film I ever watched about climate change. And it scared the living hell out of me as a 16-year-old. I remember having existential dread after watching that film in high school and thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, I only have 10 years to live, the world’s gonna be over in 10 years.’ That was what I took away from it as a 16-year-old. But now, we know 20 years later, a lot of the predictions in that film have not come true.”
Wow, it’s been 20 years since An Inconvenient Truth, an awful film that did more harm than good. pic.twitter.com/LQGXAhM1Ql
— Lucy Biggers (@LLBiggers) January 28, 2026
I spent half of my 20s as a brainwashed climate activist. This is the story of how I changed my mind and became a climate realist. pic.twitter.com/E54Fh9oEjb
— Lucy Biggers (@LLBiggers) January 27, 2026
Former climate activist Lucy Biggers discusses her climate awakening – By Gabriella Hoffman – “I almost felt like I had two personalities, where I had an outward facing personality that pushed the climate narrative. Then I had a lot of internal questions, to the point where in 2020 I read Michael Shellenberger’s book Apocalypse Never when it came out. I was still at my old job hosting a climate series, but I felt I was questioning enough that I wanted to seek that out because the doomsday scenario of climate and the nihilism was really weighing me down. I kind of sought that out for my own mental health, of, like, what else is out there and the questioning, but I think there’s not, I don’t have, like, one moment. It was a lot of questioning. But I was so entrenched in the group think of the group of the climate movement, of being very far on the left, that that switch of sort of, say, I’m no longer a climate activist, took a long time to kind of get out of almost had to do a little bit of a like a deprogramming.” — Lucy Biggers, former climate influencer and current Free Press Head of Social Media
