Talk of climate change in the 1980s was like denying Man had landed on the Moon. Finally, the world is waking up. Alice Angeloni reports. 

Once on the fringes of society, 88-year-old Norman Fletcher says they were regarded as “jandal-wearing, tree-hugging fruit loops”, scoffed at for their environmental concerns.

But times have changed, awareness has grown and an environmental ethos has seeped into the minds of the mainstream…

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Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/115476338/maligned-to-mainstream-the-climate-campaigners-who-never-gave-up

by Alice Angeloni 16 Sept 2019, The Marlborough Express/Stuff.

photo Scott Hammond, Stuff