For a very long time I have been arguing that the ruling class establishment in the Pig Empire has known about fossil fuel induced climate crisis for decades, and to prove it I usually point to the reports every President from Kennedy onward has received when taking office, the comprehensive studies conducted in the Sixties by fossil fuel executives, and the information provided to the investor class about what climate change means for their financial futures over the past forty to fifty years. And every time I brought this up, older and wiser lefties than myself have repeatedly told me that even this overstates how successful folks in power have been in keeping this a "secret" because information about climate crisis and the fossil fuel consumption that causes it has been leaking out into the public sphere on the regular that entire time. Unfortunately, because it wasn't my area of expertise, I typically dismissed these observations as folks overstating the impact of environmental protection movements in the Pig Empire. Well, as it turns out, the greater fool is me because those older and wiser lefties were right.
https://grist.org/science/lost-history-climate-1960s-clean-air-act-supreme-court/
The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s
"Ominous warnings of climate change had also reached the wider public. In 1958, Frank Capra, the famous filmmaker, produced an animated movie, The Unchained Goddess, that warned that just a few degrees of temperature rise could cause the seas to rise, so that tourists in glass-bottom boats would one day see “the drowned towers of Miami through 150 feet of tropical water.” It was shown to almost 5 million children in classrooms across the country. On The Merv Griffin Show in 1969, Americans were warned that a rapidly heating Earth could melt the polar ice caps. The next year, an article in Sports Illustrated, a magazine seemingly far-removed from environmental concerns, explained the science of climate change in detail, advising people “not to take 99-year leases on properties at present sea level.”
Although I've focused on the reality that awareness of the climate crisis and its causes was objectively a public discussion as far back as the 1960's, the rest of this article discusses the open but "forgotten" evidence that it was very much on the mind of American legislators during that period too. This in turn exposes longstanding court decisions, and the American political right's argument that climate change was not part of the government's purview when departments like the EPA were created, as a series of poorly concealed lies; to say nothing of the now 60 year old (at least) campaign to institutionally "memory hole" what we already knew about fossil fuel induced climate crisis in our broader society - a quest we now know fossil fuel companies and right wing think tanks actively paid to achieve over that same time period.
All in all, it is clear that fossil fuel induced climate crisis and the fact that our government has done nothing to stop it, is effectively a criminal conspiracy built around selective amnesia; and that *open* conspiracy reaches the highest levels in our society and has many, many fathers in American political life.
PS: hat tip to the reader who shared this article with me last week; you've confirmed something I've long had suspicions about but lacked the citations to prove and for that I am grateful.
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