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LudwigPastorius

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15. I remember the first Earth Day.

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2022, 12:10 AM

Jun 2022

That day, and for about 4 years after that, the elementary school where I went, in Texas, took time out every year to teach us what ecology was and what pollution was doing to our environment.

That shit was shut down after that. Can't have the young uns indoctrinated with that hippie bullshit...especially when it could cut into fossil fuel profits.

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Just imagine where we would be if, since that first Earth Day, we had given the [View all] niyad Jun 2022 OP

I know. They_Live Jun 2022 #1

We have a new plan from our global oligarchs. Voltaire2 Jun 2022 #2

Reagan taking the solar panels off of the WH sent a clear message to those walkingman Jun 2022 #3

I believe those same panels are still in use at Unity College in Maine. Evolve Dammit Jun 2022 #8

Instead of "Don't Look Up" - "Just Don't Think About It." NoMoreRepugs Jun 2022 #4

Or we had listened to Rachel Carson from the beginning. TNNurse Jun 2022 #5

Or Jimmy Carter. kacekwl Jun 2022 #6

Oh, I loved what Jimmy Carter did, but Rachel came first. TNNurse Jun 2022 #10

I often think things like this XanaDUer2 Jun 2022 #7

Indeed. niyad Jun 2022 #12

The people dying in Ethiopia from drought caused by climate change are imagining that right now Kaleva Jun 2022 #9

This all is beyong heartbreaking. niyad Jun 2022 #11

This could have been prevented had the actions you said in your OP been taken Kaleva Jun 2022 #13

I marched in DC 3xs early - middle '80's for Solar and Other Renewable Energies... electric_blue68 Jun 2022 #14

I remember the first Earth Day. LudwigPastorius Jun 2022 #15

Your last sentence says it all. niyad Jun 2022 #16

...and if everyone had gone vegan. flvegan Jun 2022 #17