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People grew up literally expecting a nuclear war, or inside tyrannical expansionist states, and still had hope for the future. We were worried about acid rain,
by riffraff 2y ago
People grew up literally expecting a nuclear war, or inside tyrannical expansionist states, and still had hope for the future.
We were worried about acid rain, and losing the ozone layer, and a ton of other stuff that we managed to solve. I doubt the kids today are fundamentally different than they were in the past.
- petre 2y agoYour comment contains at least two themes from the Black Planet song by The Sisters of Mercy: radiation and acid rain. Released in 1985, six years before the fall of the USSR, one year before Chernobyl. It recalles some of the fears of the past 40 years quite well. Now after another 40 years they're resurfacing again.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 2y agoNuclear war, tyrannical expansionist states, are still on the menu for the current generations and things like acid rain and ozone layer depletion (along with a host of other pollution issues) could easily be again if the current efforts to undermine the EPA and its rules are successful. The biggest difference between then and now I think is that kids then could see and believe a future world that is better then the one their parents had. Whereas today's kids can't see that, and rightfully so I would say.