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.