They preached doom, now they preach calm: Ex-climate activists say stop the fear
By Admin
April 28, 2026
2:33 pm
By Audrey Streb
Former climate activists told The Lion that although they used to be manipulated by alarmist media narratives and driven by anxiety, they now offer a different message to the world: don’t be afraid.
Lucy Biggers, a former climate activist who now directs social media for The Free Press, told The Lion she was searching for meaning in the climate movement. For years she warned the world of the “existential threat” of climate change, protesting pipelines, pushing the Green New Deal and interviewing prominent green activists and political figures such as Greta Thunberg and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Anika Sweetland, a former energy policy advisor to the Australian government and now a member of the CO2 Coalition, explained to The Lion that analyzing raw satellite data relieved years of her anxiety. Now based in the United Kingdom, Sweetland said that she was the first to graduate from a program devoted to climate change studies at the University of Western Australia, which she described as “alarming, disturbing” and painting a “very bleak outlook.”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2026/04/28/they-preached-doom-now-they-preach-calm-ex-climate-activists-say-stop-the-fear/
