Yep. We spent days discussing the evils of canned hairspray and CFCs. Our textbooks were a little behind and said that acid rain was going to kill us all. It really blows my mind when I hear people of a certain age discuss climate change like its nuclear bombs in the cold war era. We've blown by so many "extinction event" predictions I can't even keep them all straight.
Yeah I grew up in the "ozone layer is collapsing" stage of the grift
Yep. We spent days discussing the evils of canned hairspray and CFCs. Our textbooks were a little behind and said that acid rain was going to kill us all. It really blows my mind when I hear people of a certain age discuss climate change like its nuclear bombs in the cold war era. We've blown by so many "extinction event" predictions I can't even keep them all straight.
TBF, we largely stopped using CFCs and the ozone layer recovered largely as a result of that.
There's no way to verify that, though.
i still remember the video we watched in 5th grade about how in the future we'd have to wear hazmat suits at recess