"This is a fight for our
generation's survival. Her reaction is why young people desperately want new
leadership in Congress."
As young people from around
the world are marching in the streets and calling on adults and elected leaders
to act urgently to address runaway global warming and the climate crisis, this
video of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) explaining to youth activists in her office
on Friday why she won't back the joint congressional resolution on the Green
New Deal has to be seen in order to be believed.
Posted to Twitter by the
Sunrise Movement, which had organized the office visit as part of its campaign
to garner support for the resolution, the video shows Feinstein responding with
"smugness and disrespect" when the group explains that while their
futures are the ones that will be impacted the most the scientific community
has said there is just 12 years for radical transformation to take place.
According to Sunrise:
Children as young as 7
reminded Senator Feinstein that their generation will be most impacted by the
effects of climate change and that she must stand with her constituents.
The Senator responded by
asking for their ages, stating: "Well, you did not vote for me."
"I’ve been doing this for
30 years," Feinstein says in the video. "You come in here and say it
has to be my way or the highway. I don't respond to that...I know what I'm
doing. Maybe people should listen a little bit."
Watch it:
"Everyone needs to watch
this video of @SenFeinstein disparaging
literal children from @SunriseMvmt calling
on her to support @AOC and @SenMarkey’s Green New Deal,"
said Waleed Shahid of the Justice Democrats.
In the wake of the video,
Varshini Prakash, co-founder and executive of the Sunrise Movement, let it be
known how disgusted she was with the way Feinstein treated the young activists
in her office:
Author and activist Naomi
Klein also
reposted the video and simply said: "Everyone. Needs. To. Watch.
It."
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