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| Oct 5, 1959 |
A few more space related issues of "My Weekly Reader". This article is in celebration of Earth Day on April 22.
I recently acquired a few more issues of this "ephemeral" school newspaper. I get consistent comments about how they are both difficult to find and bring back the "space race" many of us experienced.
So here is an article from late 1959.
In a topical way this article is still current since it is about climate change. But back in 1959 it also discusses how someday we might control the weather with satellites.
But more interesting in a look back from 2017 is this: "Carbon dioxide is a gas found in the air. Living things need a little carbon dioxide. Soon, there may be too much...Carbon dioxide acts like a heat trap. It is making the earth warmer."
So the fact that climate change is occuring is not a new idea, even in the late 1950s something was changing.
..."automobiles and smokestacks are changing our weather much faster than H-bombs."
Interesting as always. I wonder in what grade these Weekly Readers were used?
ReplyDeleteOMG -- I was 10 years old, my sister and I read these... obviously that's where I was radicalized!
ReplyDeletethanks for finding and posting these.
Remember these yearly - some type of discussion of climate change,- I remembered them and went to the concert in Vancouver in 1970 with Joni Mitchel, James Taylor and Phil Ochs, and the BC band Chilliwack performed at
ReplyDeletea benefit concert for the Don't Make A Wave Committee, which
raised $17,000 for Greenpeace. - Boomer Depp