Newsweek discussed one of its 1975 articles in 2006:
In April, 1975 … NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster. Citing “ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically,” the magazine warned of an impending “drastic decline in food production.” Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect “just about every nation on earth.” Scientists urged governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . . well, if you had been following the climate-change debates at the time, you’d have known that the threat was: global cooling…
Citizens can judge for themselves what constitutes a prudent response-which, indeed, is what occurred 30 years ago. All in all, it’s probably just as well that society elected not to follow one of the possible solutions mentioned in the NEWSWEEK article: to pour soot over the Arctic ice cap, to help it melt.
Yeah... I'm also happy they didn't melt the ice cap back then. Every time we humans have tried to actively "fix" something in nature it has gone catastrophically wrong, and in this case we don't know what to fix or even if fixing is needed.
Environ-mentals: Something's happening. We don't know what exactly, but we need to fix it!
Me: Why?
Environ-mentals: Umm....
