They have no idea, is what’s pissing me off. I remember when it really WAS like she is describing. Where every creekbed was a dumpsite; every stream a sewer, most rivers industrially polluted, palls over the cities every day; Most of that got cleaned up. But it was a successful tactic and now it will never die on its own, it will just complain more and more about less and less.
Every river that went through a city in the United States used to have raw sewage dumped into it, routinely. You couldn’t swim, or fish, or even stand to be around them. They were open sewers.
This was the normal way of things as recently as the 1970s.
The amount of progress we, as a country, have made in the last fifty years is staggering.
Back in the 80s my brother had an apartment in Los Angeles with a view of the Hollywood sign, but he never knew. He lived there for two years and never saw it, because of the smog. We were back there last year, and he was like “When did they put that up?”