Fifty years on from the first EarthDay, jdsutter writes that 'for all of the discussion, things have gotten far worse.'
John D. Sutter is a CNN contributor and a National Geographic Explorer. He is director of the forthcoming BASELINE series, which is visiting four locations on the front lines of the climate crisis every five years until 2050. Visit the project's website or follow him on Instagram. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
Jay Murray Mitchell said 'pollution and over-pollution, unless checked, could so warm the Earth in 200 hundred years as to create a greenhouse effect melting the Arctic Ice Cap and flooding vast areas of the world.'" Again, this was 1970. And this clip is a reminder that global warming has been part of the national conversation for more than fifty years.Fifty years!It's maddening that for all of the discussion, things have gotten far worse.
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