It is nearly Earth Day 1999, the last one of this millennium. Yet fossil fuels still produce most of our energy.
Electric cars do exist.
There are over 50 different models available worldwide. The first Earth Day in 1970 saw an estimated 20 million people across the nation participating in peaceful demonstrations that called attention to our environmental dilemmas. Senator Gaylord Nelson organized it as a nationwide teach-in about the environment. The message was heard and in the next few years, sweeping environmental legislation was enacted including the Endangered Species Act, The Federal Clean Air Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. It was a powerful time of reawakening and it appeared, for a while, that the sobering realization of our impact on the natural world might result in positive change.