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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Let’s go even further back. We had a lot of environmental activism in the 1970s. We got the clean air act, the clean water act, started recycling efforts for at least bottles and cans, and paper. Solar panels were a hot topic and President Carter installed some at the White House. My parents were part of a trend toward all electric houses fed by nuclear (what a disaster that was). Cars got a lot more efficient.

We had a great start. Then Carter lost his second term, and Republicans went ham on our future

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago
[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Leave it to conservatives to destroy the planet by inventing fake regulators they can control.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Clean water act actually helped.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Only under Democrats. It is hamstrung, bypassed and suffocated under Republicans, just like the EPA. When conservatives have power, regulation becomes a weapon for them. There is no regulation a conservative will not pervert for their own benefit.

Nothing good in history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.

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