Climate change influencer once chums with Greta Thunberg now calls the movement a 'scam'
The penny drops: Lucy Biggers built a sizable following as a “sustainability influencer,” and like many young people she was wracked with guilt and anxiety over climate change. She now hopes to reach people with a message that fossil fuels are a net-positive.
By Kevin Killough
Published: June 30, 2025 10:55pm
Updated: July 1, 2025 8:47am
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.”
While her fans cheered her on, Biggers told Just the News that her beliefs in a “climate crisis” took a toll on her mental health. That’s true of many young people. The most recent poll on the topic, published in the renowned medical journal The Lancet, surveyed over 15,000 people aged 16-25 in the U.S. about their thoughts and emotions about climate change. The poll found that 85% are moderately worried about climate change, and nearly 58% are very or extremely worried. Nearly 43% said it impacts their mental health.
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.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/climate-influencer-who-rubbed-elbows-greta-thunberg-now-calls-movement-scam
