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Millennials and Gen Z want to stop a climate catastrophe. But first they have to get elected.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, rallies hundreds of young climate activists in Lafayette Square to demand that President Joe Biden work to make the Green New Deal into law on June 28, 2021.

Business Insider, September 2022

When a group of young climate activists confronted Dianne Feinstein at her San Francisco office in 2019, the six-term Democratic senator cited her deep experience in Washington in refusing their demand that she endorse the Green New Deal.

“I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing,” Feinstein, then 85, told the students. “You come in here and you say, ‘It has to be my way or the highway.’ I don’t respond to that. I’ve gotten elected, I just ran, I was elected by almost a million-vote plurality, and I know what I’m doing. So, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.” 

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