Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Senator Ed Markey stood in front of the US Capitol on Tuesday surrounded by about 20 climate change activists young enough to be on a school field trip but who are energizing a movement that potentially holds the key to his reelection. Kallan Benson, 15, from Maryland, said she was terrified of what could happen if legislators don’t take action to reverse global warming. Nadia Nazar, 17, of Baltimore, compared the destruction caused by mass flooding in her family’s home in India to that of hurricanes increasingly devastating the East Coast. “We refuse to be the last generation,” said Nazar, cofounder of the climate change organization Zero Hour. “We will no longer be known as the kids fighting the apocalypse. We will be known as the solution to the climate crisis.” They and others who came to Washington ahead of demonstrations planned around the world on Friday to draw attention to climate change praised Markey for the Green New Deal resolution he is cosponsoring with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. They are part of what Markey, 73, has called a green generation army that he has worked to build through more than four decades in Congress. Now, those youthful and aggressive troops — one group staged a high-profile sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office last year — could help him hold onto his Senate seat if he faces an expected primary challenge from Joseph P. Kennedy III. Their support might temper the generational change ... Link to the full article to read more