• optissima@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    I think it’s safe to assume that if we had stronger regulations, some of which were first implemented 1980, we’d be looking at significantly less than now.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      Agreed, but 1980 was the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era and massive environmental deregulation, which only got worse through Clinton and George W. Bush.

      The great conservative movement killed conservation.