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In the context of the 70's, everything was a disaster or crisis waiting to happen. From movies that made you worry about earthquakes, burning skyscrapers, kille
by greedo 9y ago
In the context of the 70's, everything was a disaster or crisis waiting to happen. From movies that made you worry about earthquakes, burning skyscrapers, killer bees, to books Ehrlich's book, Rachel Carson's overhyped "Silent Spring" and magazines like Newsweek that touted a coming ice age. If that wasn't enough, the overwhelming sense of fear of a war with the USSR, or running out of oil due to an OPEC embargo was a real thing.
- conistonwater 9y ago> magazines like Newsweek that touted a coming ice age Please be a little more careful there: you are very close to shifting goalposts from "bad science" to "bad journalism"— those two are very separate things yet you don't bother to make a clear distinction.
- greedo 9y agoI'm not shifting goalposts in anyway. The zeitgeist at the time was very much centered on the crisis du jour. This was in a wide array of media sources.