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Originally Posted by psili
Do you have any links / articles handy where deforestation, soil erosion, ocean species depletion, etc. have drastically subsided? Granted, I'm sure there's some things that are better managed in certain places, but I'd be willing to guess the majority of all that "save the world hippy shit" still applies today -- just isn't in the media like is was back in the 80s. Doesn't mean it's not happening, though.
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Sure some still occurs, the point is when the media slapped us around with all that stuff every single time it was going to be the doom of humanity. We've seen obviously none of that was true. The underlying issue is that people only get research grants if there is a pressing issue. They hype it up and continue to get paid. Most research scientists only get paid by grants.