The main issue with many of these claims is that they didn’t happen because action was taken to stop them. For example 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to

The main issue with many of these claims is that they didn’t happen because action was taken to stop them. For example 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life’ The treaties to deal with this are literally one of the best examples of success around international pollution 1969: ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’ The clean air act was passed in 1970 1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’ Writing just after the green revolution, it would be easy to miss that the trajectory had changed Are some statements overblown sure, but calling some of the articles that directly lead to change liers because they successfully inspired change is pretty low