@SeasonedRP Notice how quick that they are to go hyperbolic with cataclysm game. They'll extrapolate something irrevocably into the future, and then claim stewardship for averting their idiotic projection. The only market forces that exist in their mind are the ones that they imposed by dictate. Ahead or behind the curve, it doesn't matter. Government always solves it. Then they write their virtue into the history books.

I might even be inclined to believe that they're honestly wanting to use better forms of power generation - if they weren't trying so hard to kill me. I think rather that they want to shut everything down for some horrible twisted end. The people behind an idea do matter. So fuck their virtue. I say that we burn the shit out of fossil fuels until we can find enough ways to purge the globalists. Then once we've freed up that shit then all sorts of novel energy will be appearing all over the place without them around to suppress it.

@SeasonedRP Not sure about you, but I can REMEMBER news, current events, and pop culture back to the early-mid 70s. By the late 70s, it was spoken of in the past tense. "They USED TO say we were going to cause another ice age..." The mainstream environmental movement had long since "moved on" and threat of causing a new ice age was no longer on their radar. The big environmental issues of the later 70s were leaded gas which finally got banned (with immediate measurable results and short + long term benefits), deforestation was a distant second, but at least in Southern California, water was the most talked about issue in environmentalism.

Biggest focal point was the LA Aqueduct drawing so much water from the Owens Valley that Mono Lake dropped to the point where a land bridge developed to the island where a majority of 1000+ miles of the Pacific Coast's seagull population bred over winter, allowing predators to decimate their population despite a shitty fence built. One of my memories from earliest childhood was every year watching an atmospheric river of seagulls migrating over where we lived, where they turned inland from the coast. For weeks, it was a constant stream of seagulls flying by, in groups and formations but making a constant unending stream 20 seagulls wide from horizon to horizon. Then one year they stopped, and never in the decades since have I seen this migration big enough to notice at all. That and the snail darter, whose giant habitat's salinity became unlivable to them due to the majority of the flow of a multi-river system's delta getting diverted by humans.

Grade school kids would egg on the people ahead of them at the drinking fountain with a bitchy, "Save some for the fish, maaan!" Save the forests and save water were the second and first biggest environmental issues throughout the mid-late 70s. These were talked about ALL THE TIME when "the environment" came up in discussion.

"There's GOING to be an ice age!" was on NOBODY'S lips in the mid to late 70s and beyond. That is my direct memory, growing up in a fairly affluent and environmentally conscious area where this stuff got talked about.