Yep. I was jus a little kid in the 1970s, but I recall all to well all the scaremongering about the coming ice age, and how much of it was our fault. Oh, and all the calamities from overpopulation.
A little trip down memory lane—Newsweek, 1975—Global Cooling—hilarious fear porn.
https://iseethics.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/the-cooling-world-newsweek-april-28-1975.pdf