Ellie Goulding shares her fears she has lost fans due to her climate activism

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Ellie Goulding believes her green campaigning has damaged her career. The singer – a UN environment ambassador – admits she had reservations before first speaking out on global warming, because she feared it would hurt her music industry prospects. “I genuinely thought that the activism would jeopardise my job, and I believe it has,” she says. “Every time I post anything about climate change, I lose at least a thousand followers.

People are following me for a very specific reason and it’s not the environment. “People say, ‘f*** you posting this. We don’t want to hear this.

This is not what we’re interested in. Stop preaching. Climate change isn’t real.’ “I’ve had to be very careful and it is really difficult at times. “And I think that’s