Lucy Biggers: From Climate Influencer to Climate Skeptic

0:00 – Intro: Lucy Biggers, former climate influencer
0:54 – Covering climate at NowThis News
2:38 – Becoming more nuanced and leaving the movement
5:18 – What drove her climate fear
8:26 – Young people, Greta Thunberg, and climate dread
12:29 – Failed predictions and An Inconvenient Truth
14:38 – Hurricane data and billion-dollar storms
15:57 – The 98% drop in climate-related deaths
17:45 – Climate anxiety, prepping, and The Last of Us
20:58 – Strongmen, AOC, and female leaders
23:54 – Privileged activists and developing nations
26:46 – Romanticizing poverty and cooking with wood
28:35 – Europe's air conditioning problem
31:41 – European self-esteem and Douglas Murray
34:17 – Immigrants who love America
36:25 – Covid, 2020, and Brooklyn Heights
40:33 – Coming out online and the Zohran Mamdani video
43:34 – A series to calm climate anxiety
45:09 – Wildfire data and forest management
47:41 – The Palisades fire and Spencer Pratt
50:02 – Where the fire relief concert money went
53:14 – Prevention vs. solar panels
55:31 – Kids, climate anxiety, and long Covid
58:37 – Cigarettes, risk, and Gen Z having less fun
59:50 – Wrap-up