"It's worse than we thought." Sound familiar?

[AverageJoe90]

53. Not quite.

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My assertions are also partly based on past actions, on top of a pragmatic worldview. Remember when the 1970 Clean Air Act was passed? Just 10, or hell, even 5 years earlier, maybe, most people never would have seriously thought that such a thing would ever be implemented nationwide. Granted, there was one in 1963, too, but the 1970 Act really put things into the forefront, and two years later, in a shocking move(shocking, in light of who was President at the time!), Nixon's administration created the EPA, probably one of the few good things he ever did in office. And not many thought that much progress would be made with CFCs, either, back in the '80s. And yet, in the mid-'90s, they were practically history, thanks to the Montreal Protocol. Much of the success in both cases was thanks to activists, like those in GreenPeace, or Rachel Carson, who dedicated their lives to bettering the world. And I think we can all be thankful for that, at least.