[ikawe]

This is an aside, but I’d never seen that “Beyond 2000” show before.

Retro future is a favorite topic of mine, so thanks for sharing.

Yeeesh though, re: part 2 of that episode, it’s wild to watch people in 1988 articulate the looming threat of global warming, and to hear them say on this 25 year old program “we’ve known about this for 30 years”

[dbspin]

Yeah - as someone born in 1979, I find repetitions of the idea that global warming / climate change only came into public awareness 'in the last 15 to 20 years' on TV news and in documentaries deeply troubling. Global warming was constantly discussed on (British) television during my childhood. At least as much as the hole in the ozone layer and acid rain. Perhaps this wasn't the case in America?

[Vinnl]

The funny thing is that people were calling for protecting the future of the children - and now we've just moved the goalposts to those children's children.