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Yeah, it's nice that they fixed the ozone and acid rain, but now they've gone and walked back what stopped it, so we'll see it again soon enough.
At least in the 80s there was potential for improvement, in spite of the problems, rather than an eternal spiral into oblivion.
We also were still able to rely on legal protections rather than having it all privatized and laws bypassed by T&C.
We don't talk about the irreconcilable damage inflicted during the earlier industrial era. We don't talk about what modern fossil fuels and plastics replaced.
Nothing about this is eternal. We are no closer to oblivion today than we were during Operation Plumbbob or the Black Plague.
You won't live to see the end. You won't live to see the beginning of the end. You won't even live to see the end of the beginning.
We're all living through a single footstep on an endless road.