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An Inconvenient Youth

Posted on October 09, 2008

When now high school senior Mary Doerr signed up for Al Gore's Climate Project training in 2007, she was 16, and she was surprised to find out that she was one of the youngest people to have ever attended. To Doerr, who had first become interested in the movement after a sixth grade project on greenhouse gases, this was the issue of her generation, and she became determined to help more young people get involved.She found that most people her age fall into two camps: those for whom climate change is just barely sitting on the fringe of their consciousness and those who know and care, but don't...

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activism , al gore , climate change , hybrid , political