This is already starting to get grayed out as of 13 minutes from being posted (which hopefully reverses later), but Jesus man, it really makes me wonder where p

This is already starting to get grayed out as of 13 minutes from being posted (which hopefully reverses later), but Jesus man, it really makes me wonder where people's sense of perspective comes from. We had an ozone hole growing past the entire continent of Antarctica. We were at best a decade from driving all whales extinct. When I was a kid in Los Angeles, around 5-10% of an average year we were banned from playing outside and had recess canceled because the air quality made it dangerous to breathe. Eastern Canada was effectively unfishable and industries and food stuffs were collapsing because of acid rain from the American rust belt. I don't doubt there is still a lot of ecological damage being done and at least some of it is cumulative, getting worse with time even if what we're doing year-on-year gets better, but a lot of it is not. We wantonly destroyed common supplies of air and water 40+ years ago in ways you almost never see any more and somehow this gets totally ignored.