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Trump actually just said it better than anyone could: "We're going back to 1952." No thanks. #ProtectYourVoice #ProtectNEPA https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2020/trump-administration-guts-national-environmental-policy-act
I just googled "water pollution in the 1950s" and this was the second result
And here is "air pollution in the 1950s" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/25/u-s-once-had-air-pollution-to-match-chinas-today/
Here's a fun one - "ocean dumping in the 1950s" https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/04/world/the-us-too-has-dumped-waste-at-sea.html#:~:text=Some%20radioactive%20waste%20containers%20were,Farallon%20Islands%20off%20San%20Francisco.&text=The%20Soviet%20Union%2C%20which%20signed,dump%20radioactive%20waste%20at%20sea.
Then of course you've got the highways built in the 1950s by bulldozing communities, including many Black neighborhoods (pre-NEPA so they had no public voice in this) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/
And let's not forget the ozone hole, which was born in the 1950s. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/2019-ozone-hole-is-the-smallest-on-record-since-its-discovery
You know what really got great around the 1950s? Extinction rates.
So yeah, "We're going back to 1952" will not make environmental protections great. Let's not. #ProtectYourVoice #ProtectNEPA (photo suggested by @mhayden57)
