[healy61]

I recall school studies in grade school in the 1950’s telling us that Lake Erie was so polluted, nothing would ever grow or live in the waters. Oil and chemicals were so thick on the service, that there were fires on the lake. Not any more.

[truth_seeker]

“I recall school studies in grade school in the 1950’s telling us that Lake Erie was so polluted, nothing would ever grow or live in the waters. Oil and chemicals were so thick on the service, that there were fires on the lake. Not any more.”

I went through school years, in the Lost Angeles metro sprawl, and the air was horrific. It is much better now.

A rational person has to admit the “environmentalists” pushed the political system, to push businesses and local governments, to clean up our water and air.

[Hot Tabasco]

I recall school studies in grade school in the 1950’s telling us that Lake Erie was so polluted... Not any more.

Well, the cleaning up of Lake Erie was one of the few positive effects of the environmental movement.........No one can argue that Lake Erie wasn't indeed a cesspool back then.........

[hinckley buzzard]

Lake Erie has the most valuable and abundant commercial fishing industry of all the Great Lakes. Yes, it was at Earth Day that the lake was pronounced dead, with "only mutated carp who survived on toxic waste," according to the Environmental Handbook issued at the time. Liberal weenies been lyin' for many decades now.

[21twelve]

“Not any more.”

I use that as an example to my kids. Moderation. It's not good to crap in your kitchen. (Or have no regulations and dumb all sorts of stuff where ever you want.) And of how amazing nature is - that given a chance it will cleanse itself. (Lake Michigan iirc was considered “dead”. Now it is a huge fishing destination.)

Years ago the EPA was a necessary thing, and it did a lot of good. Of course now the pendulum has swung way too far to the left - with even CO2 (necessary to life on Earth) being called a pollutant.

All things in moderation.