Environmental Issues In The 1970s

Global warming. Overpopulation. The lack of food and poor soil. The Government controlment over everything. The Earth as we know it is becoming more and more deteriorated. The 1970s, a time of people’s worries of these upcoming issues will try to fix these items that will ruin earth. In 1973, the movie Soylent Green was released, demonstrating what global warming and lack of food would do to the earth. The experts, such as scientists, industrialists, and government branches were brought up and questioned by a wide range of people. The authorities became the know-it-alls and were unreliable to make decisions for the earth that will affect this planet for as long as it could. People who wanted to see earth again and saved came to protest over

“The existence of toxic waste and the great usage of pesticides in the soil and water sources became an issue that was brought up throughout communities throughout the United States (The 1970s: Science and Technology).” When the soil was deteriorating,overpopulation in the United States were starting to take over. “The seventy-five million baby boomers who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s were maturing in the 1970s. They had educations, jobs, careers, freedom, and independence (The 1970s: Lifestyles).” These baby boomers were a major reason why certain areas of the United States were getting overpopulated and less jobs were becoming unavailable. In the film Soylent Green only the rich and privileged were employed and they made the major decisions for The United States. This was also similar in the 1970’s. “What they did with these things and the choices they made in their leisure time are as important as indicators of American society as how they voted. Their huge numbers made an enormous impact on everything in the culture, and their tastes and fads became national trends (The 1970s: Lifestyles).” The lifestyle of many Americans was poverty. “During the 1970s business conditions and the economy began to disappoint the expectations that Americans had built up during the post-World War II years (The 1970s: Business)”. The economy at this time period hurt the economy badly making it