"We can smell fear and have no patience for bullshit."

Elizabeth Hightower of Outside Magazine highlights Power Shift and the growing movement of young activists raising their voices and voting power to combat climate change.

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Meanwhile it helps that Power Shifters are not easily cowed. “We’re like dogs,” model and organizer Summer Rayne Oakes told me she said after Pelosi’s speech. “We can smell fear and have no patience for bullshit.” Soon the wave poured over to the West Lawn of the Capitol where thousands more were assembling, a sea of yellow Power Shift tee-shirts bobbing under placards that said – 1SKY! 1FUTURE! 1CHANCE!

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