Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "The Power of Big Oil Part One: Denial (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" video.

15:51 - there are few things I hate more than someone taking a piss on me and trying to tell me it's raining. (this whole program makes me deeply angry. I've known this was coming coming since I was in grade school. Don't know where they were but I was being warned about environmental catastrophe over and over back in the 70's and 80's. Most anyone who says they didn't know using polluting products like fossil fuels was going to be a problem didn't want to know because they had an immediate profit motive at stake. And now their grandkids and the rest of the world are all pissed off at them and they want to minimize their part - freaking people.)
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@yourmommashouse "Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it." - James Baldwin I think most people would agree that we won't be able to stop using oil in every way that we do in the next few years or even decades, but we can stop using it for some things much more easily and quickly than others. We can and are using alternatives for powering our cities and industry, in a variety of ways involving transportation, and to replace plastic packaging.
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@09rja It wasn't specifically Climate Change, but environmental devastation in general and much of it having to do with burning fossil fuels. They showed us this black and white film called "Ark" (Rolf Forsberg - 1970) in our grade school around '77 or '78 and the TEOTWAWKI genre was already well established in film and books both fiction and nonfiction. I grew up in Santa Fe though so maybe with it being a very lefty place my exposure to environmental issues was increased.
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" @09rja Loved that show! You're actually kind of proving my original point. There was plenty of warnings in our mass media and popular culture on a wide variety of potential environmental problems including ways the climate could change either naturally or due to us. And like you said, much of the concern was principally focused on the more immediate threats of nuclear war, nuclear and toxic waste pollution, and the ozone layer, but for me it's all part of the same larger problem of people trying to avoid an environmental catastrophe (or not).
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@jenwendy7 Hosed people of the world unite!
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