Topic: 1970s

The late 1960s and 1970s were a "golden age" for alternative energy and local-scale technologies, but this progress was halted by the Reagan counterrevolution in the early 1980s. An entire generation is accused of cashing in their environmental ideals for corporate jobs, leading to the defunding of alternative energy research. This shift prioritized short-term corporate profit over long-term ecological stability and resource independence.

A significant body of public engineering and military literature from the 1960s and 70s detailed plans for intercity tube transport in the United States. Sauder notes that the public trail for this research went cold in the late 1970s, coinciding with the emergence of rumors regarding secret, high-speed military tunnel systems.