If you went to elementary school/junior high in the 60's and 70's....

[Anonymous]

I don't remember much of those things, although I started school in 1965. I do remember gas lines in the 1970s and when schools were closed for a week in maybe 1977 when there was a natural gas shortage.

I also remember that my college professors were talking about climate change (called the greenhouse effect then) way back in the late '70s and early '80s. And far too little has been done to mitigate it in all this time. And 40 years later, we will have president who says it's a hoax.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you remember reading in your textbooks that since there was a limited amount of fossil fuel available, the Earth would run out of its' stores in 30 years?

I remember being terrified when I read that! I remember talking to my mom about it, and she reassured me we were not going to run out of fossil fuels.

I don't know what made me think of that!

Also, do you remember watching "Hemo the Magnificent", and "Our Friend, the Sun"?

There was also a tape about pollution with Tom Lehrer singing "Pollution".

I guess I'm feeling nostalgic today!

Doyou remember the actual, real pollution we dealt with every day? When I hear people talk about getting rid of the EPA I have to wonder if they remember what the smog was like back then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't remember much of those things, although I started school in 1965. I do remember gas lines in the 1970s and when schools were closed for a week in maybe 1977 when there was a natural gas shortage.

I also remember that my college professors were talking about climate change (called the greenhouse effect then) way back in the late '70s and early '80s. And far too little has been done to mitigate it in all this time. And 40 years later, we will have president who says it's a hoax.

But back then, they were worried about global cooling rather than global warming. I remember reading young adult fiction that was focused on surviving the freezing temps that were coming when the world started to cool.

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I remember being taught the metric system in the '70s and being told that by the time I was an adult the U.S. would be on the metric system. Didn't quite turn out that way.

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Anonymous wrote:I was in elementary school in the 70s/early 80s. By far the most frightening thing to me was the threat of nuclear war. There was a lot of talk about it, films at school, and The Day After on tv. It scared the bejesus out of me.

I also remember the kudzu threat. Kids did science fair projects on how best to get rid of it. Everyone thought that it grew by the meter every day, was almost invincible and posed a great danger to the US. At least some of the bodies of the children murdered in Atlanta were found in a kudzu covered empty lot, and this added to the scary mystique of kudzu.

Ditto! I was in sixth grade when I watched The Day After. Scared me for years. I was haunted the first month and barely slept for days after.

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Anonymous wrote:

Also, do you remember watching "Hemo the Magnificent", and "Our Friend, the Sun"?

I loved "Our Mr. Sun"-- and I ended up becoming a solar physicist. "Our Mr. Sun" was directed by Frank Capra and was voiced by Lionel Barrymore and Eddie Albert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEfomqnif34

[Anonymous]

I remember in the 1970's reading about how we were going to run out of vaginas. And it happened.

[Anonymous]

Yes. It was taught.