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I was rewatching the office a few months ago and they talked about climate change. That show is over 20 years old at this point.
This makes me feel old as shit and also deeply concerned that kids don't know that climate science is not something that came up in the past decade. It was widely known and understood by the general public even in the 80s and 90s but fossil fuel lobbies successfully stalled any action on it and muddied the waters for enough people. There was even a disaster movie about climate change called The Day After Tomorrow that came out in 2004 based on a book that came out in 1999. Captain Planet came out in 1990 and it had an eco friendly superhero fighting villains polluting the earth with greenhouse gases. I know it's kind of hard to imagine if you're a kid who grew up during a more acute phase of the climate crisis to imagine that we all knew about thisfor decades and did nothing, but that's what happened.
Nowadays, we're not only doing nothing, but speeding up the process.
60s*
See my comment here. While some scientists were studying anthropogenic climate change in the 1960s, the consensus wasn't as clear as it was later and the average person was more concerned with more immediately obvious pollutants than CO2.
Thats no surprise. Gore was doing his powerpoint presentations that became the movie and inconvenient truth after the hanging chads. Thats about when the average joe became aware of it.
the hippies stood for environmentalism in the late 60s, which everybody was aware of
yeah though I can say even in the 80's and 90's it was more around pollution and poisoning of the air, water, earth. I was fairly into it and did not remember any talk around global warming really.
the national park movement gained traction in the late 1800s
Not the same thing . Environmentalism is different from an awareness of climate change, and prior to the late 1980s and 90s the average person's main concern with industrial emissions were toxic vapors and particulates, not CO2, since these have much more immediately apparent impacts on health and safety.