It is 1988 and it is the hottest summer on record. The greenhouse effect is detected and it is changing our climate. "It is the year that our earth spoke back. Our land, water and soils support a remarkable range of human activities but they can only take so much." (George HW Bush on the campaign trail, soon to become President of the USA)
"We have all recently become aware of another insidious danger. It is mankind and his activities which are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways." (her speech to the UN General Assembly in 1988).
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