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Elizabeth Nickson
- Welcome To Absurdistan is Elizabeth’s popular “Substack” where she publishes her weekly essays- a place where no topic is off limits: From election rigging to the green grift, Elizabeth eviscerates the narratives we’ve been spoon fed for years.
- A Former Legacy Media journalist, Elizabeth started out at the London bureau of Time Magazine and later served as European Bureau Chief of Life magazine during its final years…
- Author of The Monkey Puzzle Tree, an investigation into CIA MKULTRA mind control experiments, and Eco-Fascists: How Radical Environmentalists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage, a widely discussed critique of environmental policy’s impact on rural economies published by HarperCollins US
In Welcome to Absurdistan, Elizabeth Nickson will usually start an essay where “polite society” generally prefers not to look: At the rot inside governments, the media, the culture, and the bureaucracies. She also not just then exposes but actually writes with the uncomfortable truth about… the quiet contempt the “elites” hold for the people they govern over. (She often says of her former ilk “We can be really, really mean.”)
Her essays often hit like a sucker punch in the gut that you don’t see coming, providing a rash of failure, cowardice, and corruption—but most of the time, she won’t leave you there… Instead, she’ll slowly climb us all upwards, towards recovery: She writes of courage over compliance, and community over distraction. (Yes, too much screen time!) Her essays kick you in the slats, but then, she illuminates her readers while insisting you grow a spine, so as to be able to see what is clearly happening under the facade, a world we don’t often see.
What emerges is not despair but resolve—a reminder that history is still being written; it’s not finished, and neither are we.
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The End of The Green Fantasy
Bill Gates walked away from the Climate Change agenda in late October 2025, calling for an end to the “green premium” which is the increasingly vertiginous cost of green energy and sustainability regulations.
Once the king of the UN’s Climate Conferences, he is no longer attending COP 30 nor funding projects… but why? Does it have something to do with the fact that “Green Energy” will never be able to power the mammoth A.I. data centers now being built? Time will tell.
Still – for the past twenty years, the economies of the west have been artificially capped, and two generations have had their opportunities limited, if not eliminated entirely. We are sitting on a powder keg of suppressed creativity, opportunity and growth, which will transform the world.
In this keynote presentation, Elizabeth explains how this green fantasy happened in the first place, what happens next, and what are the main sticking points – i.e., the roadblocks that must be eliminated, so we can all thrive.
Customized Keynote
Elizabeth can customize her keynote to suit your industry. She’s happy to discuss how current events and policies will affect your industry group, be it media, government, publishing, or education, Elizabeth will craft the perfect talk for your audience. She loves to discuss cultural shifts and political trends and why we are being so creatively stifled by the unseen powers that be.
Biography
Elizabeth Nickson was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine. She became European Bureau Chief of LIFE magazine in its last years of monthly publication, and during that time, acquired the rights to Nelson Mandela’s memoir before he was released from Robben Island. She went on to write for Harper’s Magazine, the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph, the Globe and Mail and the National Post. Her first book The Monkey Puzzle Treewas an investigation of the CIA MKULTRA mind control program and was published by Bloomsbury and Knopf Canada. Her next book Ecofascists, How Radical Environmentalists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage, was a look at how environmentalism, badly practiced, is destroying the rural economy and rural culture in the U.S. and all over the world. It was published by Adam Bellow at Harper Collins US.
She is a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Center for Public Policy, fcpp.org. You can read in depth policy papers about various elements of the environmental junta here: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethNickson.
Her essay on the catastrophic failings of Canada’s CBC is included in Michael Walsh’s Against the Corporate Media, 42 Ways the Press Hates You, published in September 2024.
The Green Book, a collection of her essays on the environmental junta will be published in mid 2026.
Elizabeth is a popular and in demand podcast guest, having appeared on KunstlerCast, The James Delingpole podcast, Grimerica Outlawed, and many more. She’s spoken at 30×30 and at a number of association events.
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