Lucy Biggers
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Your own school board or all these things.
Again, I was younger.
I'm an urban New Yorker at that time, so I'm renting an apartment.
I don't really have a stake
in the game in the way that I do now.
Um, and so I fell for all this stuff.
And again, I see people that I know now in my life that I know in person, and I see them posting, you know, the memes every few months, whether it's... It would be, like, the person posting the black square during BLM, right?
And then it's, like, Palestine stuff.
Then it's the anti-ice stuff, right?
And you can care about immigration and all these different things, but, like, the level that these women are...
triggered by this stuff, and they're... I think of it now as, like, their nervous systems are hijacked by this ideology.
Even if they're, like, at home on their phone, like, breastfeeding a newborn, but their minds are, like... And part of them is in that global cause.
And climate was the big cause in 2018, in 2019, right?
And now it's no longer as fashionable.
But I think that's why my story, I think, is important, because...
There's different causes, but the same tactic is used.
It's so heartbreaking.
And again, I think that generation that's younger than me, the people in their 20s now, they were the ones that were taught climate stuff in school.
It became curriculum because all the teachers and people were like, we have to teach this to them to be responsible.
And for me, in 2006, I was a sophomore in high school, and we watched Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth during a high school assembly.