The Kayahoga River

There was a long standing conservation movement, but that was more focused on land preservation. But addressing things like bad air or poisoned water weren't part of those early conservation efforts. In 19 62, conservationist and marine biologist rachel carson sounded the alarm in her ground breaking work, silent spring. We have to remember that children born to day are exposed to the chemicals from birth, perhaps even before birth. And the real tipping point when the american public began to agree that something had to be done about this pollution, came towards the end of the 19 sixties. So the kayahoga river caught on fire several times, and you had this juxtaposition, a river burning.