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<\/a>Long-time climate advocate and activist Ellie Goulding joined Tom Mustell and Lucy Siegle for the So Hot Right Now podcast this week and spoke openly about the fears and real impact to artists speaking out on environmental issues.<\/p>\n

Despite her tremendous personal reach, with 22 billion social media streamings and 33 million followers overall, across combined social platforms, it\u2019s clear that she has felt obliged to tread carefully in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cProtesting wasn\u2019t seen as cool\u2026. I was really conscious to begin with, not to merge the two and keep my activism really separate. I genuinely thought that activism could jeopardise my job and I believe it has.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI lose followers every time I post anything about climate change. I lose at least a thousand followers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause people are following me for a very specific reason and it\u2019s not the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say \u201dF**k you for posting this, we don\u2019t want to hear this, it\u2019s not what we\u2019re interested in. Stop preaching. Climate change isn\u2019t real.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why there is a lack of artists speaking out about it because they\u2019re just terrified for their job. I get that. I understand that. We can all be honest and say that it has affected some artists\u2019 careers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope that principled and brave artists like Ellie feel able to continue speaking out despite the cost and use their platforms to provoke thought and debate, on the most important issue of our time.<\/p>\n

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  Long-time climate advocate and activist Ellie Goulding joined Tom Mustell and Lucy Siegle for the So Hot Right Now podcast this week and spoke openly about the fears and real impact to artists speaking out on environmental issues. Despite her tremendous personal reach, with 22 billion social media streamings and 33 million followers overall, across combined social platforms, it\u2019s clear that she has felt obliged to tread carefully in the past. \u201cProtesting wasn\u2019t seen as cool\u2026. I was really conscious to begin with, not to merge the two and keep my activism really separate. I genuinely thought that activism could jeopardise my job and I believe it has.\u201d \u201cI lose followers every time I post anything about climate change. I lose at least a thousand followers.\u201d \u201cBecause people are following me for a very specific reason and it\u2019s not the environment.\u201d \u201cPeople say \u201dF**k you for posting this, we don\u2019t want to hear this, it\u2019s not what we\u2019re interested in. Stop preaching. Climate change isn\u2019t real.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s why there is a lack of artists speaking out about it because they\u2019re just terrified for their job. I get that. I understand that. We can all be honest and say that it has affected some artists\u2019 careers.\u201d Let\u2019s hope that principled and brave artists like Ellie feel able to continue speaking out despite the cost and use their platforms to provoke thought and debate, on the most important issue of our time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,31,29,26,30,25,28],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-biodiversity","tag-carbon-offsetting","tag-climate-change","tag-co2-emissions","tag-environment","tag-green-space","tag-habitat-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/save-the-planet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}