Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.
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The Eights | 1978 and the Environment
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences, continues our series "The Eights" by exploring how the environmentalism movement in the 1970s led to sweeping policy changes and the resulting backlash which turned the debate on climate change into a culture war. Oreskes is the co-author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury, 2010). She explains that while President Nixon created the EPA, "regulation" soon became an explanation for 1970s stagflation from the Ronald Reagan-wing of the Republican Party and even some "cold warrior" scientists saw a slippery slope from environmentalism to socialism.