People give Nixon a lot of shit, and rightly so, but it was his time when the most significant effort (perhaps on the planet) was out forth to address environme

People give Nixon a lot of shit, and rightly so, but it was his time when the most significant effort (perhaps on the planet) was out forth to address environmental issues. Some of it might have been honest, a lot was likely political; he's quoted as saying “All politics is a fad. Your fad is going right now. Get what you can, and here’s what I can get you” when talking about it [0]. The source linked for that quote is actually a really fascinating and reasonably apolitical read. One might wonder how different things would be if it took until Carter or later. [0]: https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/richard-nixon-and-the-rise-of-american-environmentalism https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/richard-nixon-a...