Think of that but continuous. Sure there seems to be to be more environmental disasters than ever but each is a one off.

• Dead lakes and crumbling masonry from acid rain were continuous. For years
• BP having an oil spill eventually goes away, but rivers were toxic for decades, repeatedly starting on fire

You obviously weren’t around for the 1980s, and that’s OK! But don’t try to shoehorn current events into what we dealt with in the past.