Time Looks Back to a Time When the Environment Was Seen as a Unifying Issue Across Party Lines
While world leaders discuss the future of the earth’s climate, Time looks back to when the environment was “the gut issue that [could] unify a polarized nation in the 1970s.” In today’s age of extreme partisanship and Boomer “culture wars,” the notion that environmental protection used to be a bipartisan issue seems almost quaint.
—Time