There was a time when Cleveland, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River would catch on fire. My newest in The Daily Beast travel section (“How a River Fire Helped Transform Cleveland“) talks about that story and how Cleveland came to not only restore its natural resources, but also become a leader climate action.
“….In the early 70s, for example, Dr. Seuss’s first edition of The Lorax contained a line aimed at the region’s pollution. It reads: ‘They’ll walk on their fins and get woefully weary, in search of some water that isn’t so smeary, I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie.'”