• AA5B@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      There were a lot of parallels to today, where there was increased awareness of problems and a large societal movement to fix them

      Some of the most fundamental changes from back then had lasting effects, but the broader movement seemed to fade after the successes

      Today we are living in the backlash, where regressives are rolling back the fixes, even the fixes from back then. I’m not just depressed with them fighting EVs and renewables from this time period, but them fighting the clean air act and clean water act that were the centerpiece of the earlier mivement