A former climate change activist, who was once an outspoken advocate for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, is walking back her support of strict environmentalism and alarmism. [some emphasis, links added]
Lucy Biggers [pictured above], in an interview with Maya Sulkin for The Free Press, recounted her efforts as a climate change activist and explained why she began questioning the mainstream climate narrative after noticing that catastrophic predictions of climate change-fueled destruction from extreme weather were not happening.
Biggers told Sulkin that her first doubts about the movement she helped to amplify came during the COVID-19 pandemic, when she saw the effect of lockdowns on lowering society’s amount of carbon emissions, which were reduced by nearly 5 percent.
The prospect of society living locked away in their homes, suffering depression and loss of freedom, for such a small amount of carbon reduction caused Biggers to begin questioning what life would look like with a 100 percent reduction in carbon emissions.
Biggers also recalled how anti-plastic she had been for the previous six years and said that the proliferation of personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks and plastic barriers, caused her to rethink her previous hard stance.
Biggers told Sulkin, “I was like, wait a minute, I’ve been sweating about single-use plastic straws for the past five years, and now we’ve proliferated more plastic in the past few months than I’ve seen in my lifetime, and looking around, it seems like we’re fine. It looks like society was able to absorb that plastic, and the world has not ended.”
“I’m a good person”
“I need to atone for my sins”
I kind of hate that it has become cliche, because I think there is no better conceptual model for leftism than “leftism as secular religion”, and almost everything beyond that framing obscures its fundamental accuracy.
— Nemesis 2026 (@Nemtastic1) March 2, 2026
During the interview, Biggers described how her worldview shifted from being an alarmist to a “realist” perspective, which acknowledges that climate change is happening but that it is not the existential threat that it has been portrayed as being.
She also talked about how she used her identity as a climate change activist in order to feel like a “good person” and how her pivot away from the alarmism required her to come to terms with her fear of losing that moral self-image.
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Amazing how getting slapped by reality can cause someone to change. Unfortunately most of these alarmists can be slapped by reality but still not change their opinions because facts don’t seem to penetrate their thick skulls.