Rember the scare over acid rain, global cooling, not to mention the yearly scare campaigns re: the flu. Yes, I’d say we’ve learned the hard way. But you are right, we need to find a way to reach America’s youth. Unfortunately, they are all locked up in our leftist public school and university system.
Work and taxes are an immensely valued lesson for most people. Nothing gets through to a person like those facts when they occur.
My neighor was in Italy during our november election. They reported that many people there “protest daily”, and seem to be “always protesting” against something... as if it was their job.
They were ‘celebrating’ in the streets when Obama won the election.
Interesting.
Acid rain killed the pond in my back yard on Cape Cod wether or not you care to believe in simple science or not. Lowered the pH, increased algae, increased algae toxins, the entire fish population died.....all species, bass, sunnies, pickeral, perch. Pond was later chemically re-claimed and restocked with the same fish species and has done well since.
The reason you don’t hear about it now is because regulating factory and power plant emissions reduced sulfur and nitrogen output, redugin acid rain and its effects.
....but I’m sure you know better.
I don’t think anyone has ever addressed the scare campaigns about global cooling. Around the time that fears of “man-made” global cooling reached their peak, cooling ceased and then warming began. Why? The best answer I can give is that climate has always changed. Man has little impact. We don’t know enough to explain past warmings and coolings, or to predict future changes. But fear campaigns sell government. So such campaigns are popular among those with a socialist inclination.