A former activist who says she was ‘brainwashed’ by climate change ideology has come out to warn others against what she calls a science which simply isn’t true.
Social media manager Lucy Biggers revealed that, in her 20s, she was one of the loudest voices sounding the alarm on global warming and efforts to police the world’s carbon footprint.
‘I interviewed Greta Thunberg, I have interviewed AOC [Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], I pushed ideas like the Green New Deal, plastic straw bans, plastic bag bans – anything you could think that is like the typical climate activist, I pushed those things,’ she said.
Now in her mid-30s, however, she released a scathing takedown of her former life, claiming her eyes were opened by what she witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic and becoming a parent, adding that scientists who challenged the belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions were destroying the planet supplied the proof she needed.
‘I think this idea that warming is bad for humans can’t hold up to any scrutiny if you look at it honestly,’ Biggers said in a video viewed on X more than 500,000 times.
Biggers claimed Earth has actually been in a prolonged period of natural warming for centuries, ever since the end of the so-called Little Ice Age in the 1600s, and that former President Thomas Jefferson even documented a warmer climate in the 1700s.
Climate change is the term used to describe Earth’s warming, mainly as a result of human activity, such as burning coal, oil, and gas.
Scientists and climate activists have warned that this extra warmth could cause more extreme storms, rising seas that flood cities, and hotter summers that make it harder to grow food worldwide – all within the next 25 years.
Social media manager Lucy Biggers (Pictured) claimed on social media that she was ‘brainwashed’ into becoming a climate change activist
Climate scientists have said that greenhouse emissions are leading to irreversible warming that will raise sea levels and threaten mass extinction (Stock Image)
However, Biggers produced examples of conflicting climate data over the years she claimed was evidence that casts serious doubt on the narrative than modern human activities were having a major impact on the environment.
‘Climate change isn’t dangerous, and there isn’t a consensus on how much of it we can even control, and if the solutions like solar and wind even work,’ Biggers argued in her social media post.
Biggers said she started questioning her climate activism during the Covid-19 pandemic and after having her first child, noting that even with the world effectively shutting down for over a year, it did little to reduce climate emissions.
She mentioned also realizing that things like oil pipelines might be safer for the environment than trains, and plastic bans could actually increase carbon footprints compared to using allegedly eco-friendly alternatives.
‘I did not want to be on my deathbed one day having regrets of sitting on what was the truth because of fear,’ the former activist explained.
After these doubts, Biggers revealed she read books that showed climate science is more complicated and less alarming than what she had been promoting a decade ago, which helped her shift to becoming a ‘climate realist.’
The first book, Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger, a former environmental activist, argued against doomsday predictions and highlighted how environmental progress had already improved the world.
The second book, Unsettled by Steve Koonin, a physicist who worked under President Obama, explained the uncertainties in current climate models and data, challenging the idea of a simple, catastrophic crisis in Earth’s future.
Biggers (Pictured) admitted to being a major climate activist a decade ago, working with noted progressive climate advocates such as Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Climate advocates have targeted carbon emissions as a leading cause of global warming, but skeptics said carbon dioxide actually helps plant life (Stock Image)
She added that higher CO₂ levels have also been turned into a scapegoat by climate change alarmists, who blame them for global warming, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels worldwide.
‘And the increase in CO₂, we’ve seen global greening go up 15 to 20 percent in some areas. Plants have better growing seasons because CO₂ is a plant food, if you remember from biology class,’ Biggers explained.
‘And so this idea that CO₂ was inherently bad, I also call b******* on.’
In November, Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), echoed this in an interview with the Daily Mail.
Lindzen explained the basic math behind ‘climate alarm,’ revealing that the emphasis on lowering specific emissions like CO₂ simply doesn’t produce the worldwide temperature changes advocates have said it will.
Moreover, Lindzen said today’s CO₂ levels need even more help to boost plant growth, which would reduce their need for water, making more food possible for billions of people in more arid regions.
‘I think we’re low in CO₂. In the geological sense, it’s much too low. Even the increase in CO₂ we’ve seen so far has probably increased arable land by 30 to 40 percent,’ Lindzen argued.
‘We are not causing the imminent crisis that we think that we are,’ he told Daily Mail.
Biggers said she embraced climate activism in her 20s because she felt a strong sense of belonging and purpose from being part of a group that she believed was fighting for ‘the right side of history.’
After the birth of her second child, however, Biggers became concerned that children and young adults today are being taught an alarmist view of climate change in schools, which she called overly simplistic and fear-inducing.
She claimed that teaching climate change in this way has led to a mental health crisis among youths, causing them to feel nihilistic about their futures, avoid having children, and viewing modern society as doomed.
‘The opposite is true. We live in a really abundant, safe, prosperous time, and humans have never had more choice than they do now,’ Biggers contended.
