This information is from Houston Public Media by Katie Watkins:

Former Vice President Al Gore launched a new youth voter turnout initiative at Texas Southern University Wednesday, urging students to help combat climate change by heading to the polls.

“To anybody who believes that we as human beings do not have the capacity or the political will to rise to this challenge, just remember that every great morally-based movement in the history of humanity has faced times of despair and hopelessness,” he said, comparing the climate crisis to that of the Civil Rights Movement.

In the past, Gore said, social movements have succeeded when young people made it their cause.

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