Even care say about 5 years ago, i can't remember television programmes or the newspapers going on about it.
2007-09-07 04:23:21 · 11 answers · asked by elizadushku 6 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Yes people cared about the environment in the past. Environmental campaigns have only recently become centered on global warming as that is the single most important aspect, but there are many more problems that have and still exist in the environment, just not as high profile as global warming.
2007-09-07 04:43:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes. There have always been efforts to suppress or discredit politically inconvenient science, but the free press has done a gallant job. It's a worry that local news is fast disappearing, and being replaced by corporate media. A TV piece I saw on 60 Minutes in the late 1970's for example described a subdivision called Love Canal. It had been built over a landfill that contained toxic wastes. Dumping toxic wastes anywhere was perfectly legal at one time. The program led to things like laws about waste disposal, and laws requiring polluters to clean up their messes. All of that came out of a few individual reports like the one on 60 minutes. There's more awareness today, but there's more repression too.
2007-09-07 04:33:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
There are some of us who have cared since many years ago. But if you're talking about politicians..... naaah they're just trying to be "in" and taking the matter as a personal flag...... well I don't care if they do so as long as they actually DO something to help the environment!!!
2007-09-07 07:21:55 · answer #3 · answered by Lprod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The environmental movement has been going on for a long time. Alarmism has been too. In the seventies they told us in school that Global Cooling was going to be a great hurdle for our generation to deal with. We know a lot more know, and I'm not disputing the fact that temps are going up. However, that may be what turned me off of all the sensationalism.
2007-09-07 04:42:47 · answer #4 · answered by Lew 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Very much so. Most of the major environmental groups such as the World Wildlife Fund, John Muir Trust, Greenpeace etc have been around for decades.
If it wasn't for environmentalists in the past our towns and cites would have no green spaces. Access to beaches, lakes and mountains would be severrely restricted, there would be little or no control over pollution and the air would, by now, be so heaviliy polluted that it would be harmful just to breathe it.
Without the environmentalists from years gone by your, lifestyle and surroundings would be very different from what they are now.
2007-09-07 04:39:59 · answer #5 · answered by Trevor 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
i think of maximum human beings care with reference to the atmosphere and pollutants, even with the shown fact that as you will see by ability of many of the solutions you have gotten that greed,selfishness,and a (what the heck, the entire international is doomed besides)recommendations-set,that guy won't be able to freshen up the earth.there is somebody who will tho.the final component to rev.11:18 reads "and to convey to smash those ruining the earth"so there is your answer.
2016-10-18 05:43:06 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are becoming more aware; thank goodness.
People are doing a lot to clean up and recycle. It's amazing.
The changing of the light bulbs, etc.
2007-09-07 05:54:22 · answer #7 · answered by Barbra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you know that people are the number one source of man made pollution? We're killing this planet and no one cares!
2007-09-07 12:30:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Environmentalist have been working hard for hundreds of years. How old are you ?
2007-09-07 04:33:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why did they remove your looking at the stars question?
2007-09-07 04:47:20 · answer #10 · answered by malcolmg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋