• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Rivers on fire, gay bashing, satanic panic, abortion clinic bombings, acid rain…

    Okay, but we have all of that now, too. What was different?

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      2 days ago

      No - literally rivers were on fire.
      And gay bashing was mainstream, fully tolerated, very common. Lakes were turning clear like swimming pools due to acid rain - kinda pretty, but totally dead.

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          9 hours ago

          You obviously weren’t around for the 1980s, and that’s OK! But don’t try to shoehorn current events into what we dealt with in the past.

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          11 hours ago

          Think of that but continuous. Sure there seems to be to be more environmental disasters than ever but each is a one off.

          • Dead lakes and crumbling masonry from acid rain were continuous. For years
          • BP having an oil spill eventually goes away, but rivers were toxic for decades, repeatedly starting on fire
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      2 days ago

      You have got to be fucking kidding me. This is a snarky post, right? Not serious?