@Rock2 The Cuyahuga River last caught on fire in the 70s because after that, we passed the Clean Air and Water act, and cleaned it up. There are actually fish living in it today.
Do you remember the massive disinformation campaign that Big Tobacco launched from the 50s forward when their own scientists had told them that their product, used precisely per the manufacturer’s directions, was killing 350,000 American consumers each year. What did they do? They launched a massive disinformation campaign to “scientifically prove” smoking was good for you and nicotine was not addictive. Simultaneously, they targeted children with Joe the Camel advertising designed to recruit a new crop of 350,000 dupes each year to replace the consumers they killed off.
The very same PR firms that ran the disinformation campaign and advertising for Big Tobacco are now working for Big Oil and Big Coal. But the world-wide Fossil Fuel Industry is worth $37 trillion per year. You can buy an enormous stock of phony, junk-science websites and disinformation and even sell-out scientists with that sort of cash. Then you can tell the dupes that All Gore’s 100 million is behind the climate change “hoax”. You can claim the forests weren’t ever dying—it was a “hoax”—even though I saw the dying trees with my own eyes.
Whom do you expect me to believe? Shills for a $37 million a year industry, or my own lying eyes?