President carter was presented with a report by scientists showing how human activity might be adversely affecting the climate. The report said they were right, but no one was listening. Ragan comes into office a with a quasi librtarian agenda and appoints foxes to guard every chicken hout coop. Action on renewables go into the back burner. After clinton, we had george w Bush, who appointed foxes to guards out the opinion of the public. And then obaba comes in and then trumps so did sea level rise. That's why i date the book from 19 79 because that was the first time the issued got presidential attention.