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Not true. Lakes and Rivers all over the US (and Japan) were badly polluted and frothing in the 60s.
by gnipgnip 10y ago
Not true. Lakes and Rivers all over the US (and Japan) were badly polluted and frothing in the 60s.
- edblarney 10y agoI'm not saying they weren't! I'm saying that 'environmental consciousness' as a civic issue started in London in the early 19th century, not '20 years ago'. By the time pollution was bad from the plastic-chemical revolutions of the 1960's there was already a conscientiousness very well developed. One major difference: the pollution from coal in the industrial age was visible. From the 1950's chemical revolution - it was not. And so it wasn't evident to the average person that the pollution was 'hurting'. Much like smoking - it takes some science etc. to show it's bad.