Liiiiike, I was around for early ‘90s environmentalism and the general takeaway was that acid rain would melt our buildings and the hole in the ozone layer would burn us alive and factory ship fishing would kill all the whales and dolphins unless we capped global human population at 3b MAX and undid the Green and maybe Industrial revolutions

So what I’m saying is, in retrospect “ah, fuck it, give it time and it’ll sort itself out through technological improvements on the margins” was not at all an unreasonable response to “environmentalists got really het up about this in ‘88″