Found an old letter from my grandpa about the river near his farm

I was cleaning out my mom's attic last weekend and found a letter my grandpa wrote in 1972 complaining about how the local paper mill was killing fish in the creek behind his place. He said he watched the water go from clear to brown in just 5 years, and that stuck with me because I realized we've been worrying about this stuff for generations and somehow it's still getting worse. How do you keep from feeling hopeless when you look at how long people have been sounding the alarm without much changing?

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riley_wood8429d ago

Yeah, we've been "sounding the alarm" so long the batteries probably died in the 80s.

elizabethmason28d ago

Read a study a while back that said we actually dodged a bullet in 2012 when a big CME went past us. @william_garcia has a point, the grid's taken some hits since the 80s and we're still here typing about it.

william_garcia29d ago

Man the whole debate around invisible solar flares and grid collapse is getting tired. Read somewhere that the last big Carrington level event was like 1859 and we've barely had a near miss since then. @riley_wood84 you're right, people been screaming end of the world with this stuff longer than I've been alive. Realistically the power grid has survived plenty of close calls without going full blackout.