There is a big difference between the environmentalism of Teddy R and Nixon as opposed to the modern tree huggers who hate energy mining and industry. The former want people to have clean air and water. The latter hate people especially free and prosperous people.
It's not the vision that counts—it's the translation of purity into the shit of real life.
You can't lay the of the current state of Eco-Fascism on Nixon a half century plus ago.
Yes, the propagandist book Silent Spring was out, but there really were legitimate concerns about pollution then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz0U90okKn0
This whole CLIMATE CHANGE! cult embers started to glow in the 80's with Senate testimony deliberately planned at the hottest time of the year...
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/03/14/1988-congressional-climate-change-hearing-claims-of-accelerating-sea-level-rise-failed/
Then the adorable sex puppy Al Gore self anointed himself the Grand Priest of the religion....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqvNcXGIcWc
There is a big difference between the environmentalism of Teddy R and Nixon as opposed to the modern tree huggers who hate energy mining and industry. The former want people to have clean air and water. The latter hate people especially free and prosperous people.