There doesn't need to be a competition over who was worse to the environment. I'll freely admit that my grandfather piped both gray and black water out of our family home on Frenchmans Bay ( Maine) out below mean high water. I'll also freely admit that my grandmother could and did send us out in a flat bottom dinghy with handlines and we'd come back in within a half hour with enough flounder to feed 18 or more. Fresh fissh !

Those days are done, but the arguments will persist about causation and correlation. It behooves every one of us to be the best advocate of improving our environment rather than pointing fingers and saying < neener neener neener> he.she.they started it. At some point, being an educated adult needs to mean something.