All in less than six minutes---
Believe it or not, Richard Nixon was good for our environment. After him, though, things started going downhill. That's especially true with Reagan's brand of neoliberalism. From then up to present-day, eco-regulations have been diluted or scrapped outright, while politicians continue to favor the fossil fuel industry, factory farming, and Big Biz in general. Once in awhile, they throw a bone to the health of our habitat.
Largely through Edward Bernays style propaganda, environmental issues have become politicized to the Nth degree. Too many voters have been indoctrinated to believe that environmental laws and regulations are "socialism", rather than protection for our health and the health of our common habitat. Surely they don't believe various industries would - on their own initiative - never pollute our air, water, and land, eh? Surely those voters don't believe emitting 36 billion tons of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere per year (worldwide) is good for our habitat, eh? If they don't believe those things, then why do they keep voting for politicians who apparently do believe such? Here's a big reason why: propaganda from Mega Biz and the politicians in their back pockets.
So, step one in shifting to a sustainable existence on Earth: stop drinking the Propaganda Kool-Aid supplied by The Establishment. Those who are serving it up are ecologically ignorant beyond the pale. They are technocrats with little-to-no knowledge of Nature, and apparently zero knowledge of how our existence depends upon the proper functioning of natural ecosystems.
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Not only my opinion. Take Care
