text:  I grew up going camping with my dad and fishing and all that sort of stuff. And so I've always had an appreciation for the environment and the outdoors. As I got more involved in politics, the issues that I gravitated toward were the tougher ones. He thinks that he can get his peers to see the impact of climate change in most policy issues. He recalls when one person told him that they didn't care about climate. They cared about immigration.