O'Rourke in Minnesota

Pete Steinhagen, a retiree from St. Paul, said he and his wife like O’Rourke’s climate-change ideas. He has set a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

“If we don’t use this next decade to our fullest advantage, we will lose this place to the generations that follow us,” O’Rourke said in the interview. “If we don’t get this right, nothing else is possible.”