Post: People start pollution. People can stop it.

On Earth Day, 1971, a nonprofit called Keep America Beautiful launched TV ads to persuade people to stop littering.

Organizing the World’s Emotion: YouTube and Our Video Identities

What we are encountering is a panicky, an almost hysterical, attempt to escape from the deadly anonymity of modern life… and the prime cause is not vanity… but the craving of people who feel their personality sinking lower and lower into the whirl of indistinguishable atoms to be lost in a mass civilization. – Henry Seidel Canby, 1926