@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:One of the points of the cartoon is that global warming hysteria is leftist nonsense. Note the "socialism" and "hammer and sickle" on the bottle of poison.
It certainly is a fact that climate change got no to little coverage in the USA until the late 1980's/90's.
And by this, you didn't notice that many other countries took action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions already before 1990.
The World Council of Churches put the concept of sustainability on the international political agenda for the first time as early as 1975 with its call for a "sustainable and responsible society" - when climate change was not yet the focus of social attention.
At the end of 1988, even Margaret Thatcher was advocating action against human-induced climate change ... ...