Is anyone here old enough to remember in the mid to late 70's there was a brief craze that the next ice age was rapidly approaching? There were commercials about it. Supposedly the 'scientists' were certain that we were on the brink of global freezing?
Fortress was born January 1970.
I vividly remember the Acid Rain Scare of the mid-eighties.
Educators, media and select political factions did everything possible to SCARE THE LIVING SHIT out of me and my peers on the daily, for years.
Then … poof.
Never EVER again heard “acid rain”.
You live long enough, and have a decent intellect and critical thinking, you begin to see the game(s) and the cycle of permanent bullshit.