Ahead of its time – definitely. If only the world had taken global warming as seriously as this episode of Bell Telephone Hour, which was broadcast in 1958 and features a warning about the dangers of climate change.
“Even now, man may be unwittingly changing the world’s climate through the waste products of this civilization. Due to our release through factories and automobiles every year of more than 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide, which helps air absorb heat from the sun, our atmosphere seems to be getting warmer. …It’s been calculated that a few degrees rise in the Earth’s temperatures would melt the polar ice caps, and if this happens, an inland sea would fill a good portion of the Mississippi valley.”
This makes us sad. If only people had begun acting back then, imagine how much better off we’d be right now.
Link [BoingBoing]
