“Eco-terror and animal revenge flicks came into their own by the 1970s, decades before ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ warned of global warming.
The decade was a turning point in the environmental movement. The Environmental Protection Agency was founded in 1970, after a series of government hearings and studies on pollution. One of the sparks for its creation was the Cuyahoga River fire of 1969, which was the focus of a Time magazine cover story.”
