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  • COVID-19 canceled mass protests. Here’s what youth climate activists are doing instead.

    08/09/2020 11:00:39 AM PDT · by Libloather · 6 replies
    Grist ^ | 8/09/20 | Lauren Aratani
    **SNIP** Then in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, youth movements began building campaigns and gaining visibility, with climate change growing as a key issue, driven in part by the burgeoning Sunrise Movement, which was founded in 2017. In preparation for the 2018 midterm elections, the Sunrise Movement began training young activists to canvass for candidates who were proponents of renewable energy and publicly confront incumbents who take money from the fossil fuel industry. When the 2018 midterms came around, 20 percent more young Americans ages 18 to 29 went out to vote compared to the last midterms in 2014,...