Lucy Biggers worked as a climate reporter and activist from 2015 to 2021.
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VINCESep 16, 2026
Multiple sources, including Biggers' own LinkedIn profile, show her working as a NowThis producer, correspondent and climate-series host from roughly 2015 to 2021, covering climate and describing herself as an advocate or activist. Some interviews give narrower or shifted dates (2016 to around 2020), but the core claim holds and the 2015 to 2021 span matches the post's own words.
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… change is an existential threat, and so if there was positive news, I would not highlight it, because that might fuel climate change denial or people not taking climate action seriously, and so I would only cover stories that made the climate look worse. That was me from 2015 to 2021. Today, news outlets have reporters like me that are in the newsrooms. They're very agenda-driven. They think that they're reporting the truth, but they want they like they're fully bought into climate catastrophe, and so they probably have the same minds …
VINCE · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Her LinkedIn profile lists NowThis roles from September 2015 to August 2021, including Producer & Correspondent and Senior Producer and host of the climate series One Small Step.[1]
Supports. In a May 2026 podcast transcript she says she was a climate influencer at NowThis from 2015 to 2021, covering climate as an advocate and activist.[2]
Supports. A Substack piece says she spent five years covering sustainability and climate stories for NowThis and openly embraced climate advocacy during that tenure.[3]
Context. A TRIGGERnometry interview transcript dates her activism to about 2016 to 2020, a narrower window than the claim, though the sources broadly agree on the period.[4]
Context. Her own Instagram post describes covering climate as an influencer for five or six years up to 2021, which is consistent with the claimed range.[5]
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- 1Lucy Biggers | LinkedInlinkedin.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 2Can You Care Without Being Consumed?youtube.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3The Mainstreaming of Climate Doubtchrisgloninger.substack.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4singjupost.com · triggernometry-w-ex-climate-activist-lucyTRIGGERnometry: w/ Ex-Climate Activist Lucy Biggers (Transcript)singjupost.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Lucy Biggers on Instagram: "Part 1: Why I left the climate movement It’s obviously really hard to pack five years of thinking and growing into a single video or post. But I want to start walking you through how my mind started to change and how I began to see more nuance in the climate conversation. I used to cover climate as a climate influencer for a news company. I did that for five or six years, from the 2010s up until 2021, when I left. And the whole time I was doing that work, I had this pit in my stomach. I knew the story was more complicated than what I was telling my audience. I was painting a very black-and-white picture of reality. A lot of what I was saying was based more on hope and vibes than anything concrete. Because the more I actually looked into the technologies I was promoting—(especially solar & wind) the more I realized they weren’t the magic solutions the climate movement made them out to be. Ironically, one of the things that helped shift my thinking was a book about climate change—Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Early in the book, he writes about how fossil fuels are as essential to modern life as water. That alone made me pause. Most of us never think about how deeply embedded fossil fuels are in literally everything: our phones, our toothbrushes, even the plastic in medical equipment. And then I saw one chart that really changed my thinking."instagram.com · not rated · cited for: context
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