• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Pollution was really bad

    1970-1980’s was the first environmental movement. We were all excited to change the world. Some of the worst cases of pollution were because people finally cared enough to find them. Some things didn’t work and something’s had backtracking

    This was the era of huge successes like the clean air act, clean water act, and bottle deposit laws! Superfund cleanup for the worst of the worst.

    Cars were more unsafe

    Car safety was becoming a concern and we started doing something about it

    Air travel was crazy expensive

    But also the rise of discount airlines

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      9 hours ago

      No shit. The question was “what was life like?” Not “what changed everything?”

      I’m well aware of the things I mentioned because they’re different than today which is what the question asked for.