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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many did, but then on the flip side there were screeds of media voices lying (willfully or ignorantly) and telling everybody to ignore Al Gore & all the other people warning of the same thing.s

[–] thevoyage@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago

This is exactly my point, it's only been in the last decade or so that global warming being a reality has been generally accepted. It's easy to say in retrospect that they should have known, not so easy to know at the time.