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'Light Years Ahead' Of Their Elders, Young Republicans Push GOP On Climate Change

YCCD’s Founder and President Kiera O’Brien appeared this week on All Things Considered—NPR’s flagship news program with a weekly audience of 14+ million people:

"Young Republicans are light years ahead of their elder counterparts on this issue," says Kiera O'Brien, founder and president of Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends, which supports a carbon tax proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

O'Brien grew up in Alaska and says young conservatives are motivated by mounting evidence that the climate is changing. 

"They're seeing the impacts first-hand, whether it's myself in Alaska with algal blooms that are turning the ocean weird colors, or with flooding in the Gulf Coast, or hurricanes that are unprecedented at this point," says O'Brien. She calls her generation "the climate generation," and says effects they were told were far off are happening now.

Listen to the full story below! Thanks to Jeff Brady, NPR National Desk correspondent, for covering young conservative leadership on this important issue.