This is an amusing piece of American media history. Walter Cronkite describes Earth Day activists as "predominantly young, predominantly white, predominantly anti-Nixon." He says, "Often, its protests appeared frivolous, its protesters curiously carefree." The "act or die" message from more than fifty years ago is especially funny. Relatively speaking, it won't be that long before even the youngest people who took part in the first Earth Day are going to die - of natural causes. Environmental alarmism has been around for ages, probably as long as people, but not as long as the Earth itself.51 YEARS AGO TODAY: Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite hosted a CBS News special report on the first-ever Earth Day.
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) April 22, 2021
Cronkite reported that "success was mixed," but said the larger message still came through: "Act or die." https://t.co/zgBs3jtB0L pic.twitter.com/Hbaegin1uW
"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong." --Abraham Lincoln
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