Anti-pollution campaigns have been bringing environmental issues, like the dangers caused by pollution to living creatures and ecosystems, to the forefront of the American conscious through popular media for over half a century.
Famous Anti-Pollution Campaigns Slogans (click links for more info)
Don't be a litter bug. - Created in 1952 by the Pennsylvania Resource Council, the PRC allowed this slogan (and the litterbug character) to be used in an anti-litter campaign by the National Council of State Garden Clubs.
Keep America Beautiful - Anti-pollution organization formed in 1953 whose name is also a slogan. - History
Give A Hoot: Don't Pollute - 1970 US Forest Service slogan spoken by the character, "Woodsy Owl". Woodsy's current message is, "Lend a hand. Care for the land." Woodsy is Smokey the Bear's anti-litter counterpart.
People start pollution. People can stop it. (1971 Earth Day ad from KAB)
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1970 Woodsy Owl public service announcement from YouTube
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1971 "Crying Indian" People Cause Pollution PSA from YouTube
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Image of Native American actor, Iron Eyes Cody, in the famous, 1971 "crying Indian" Earth Day Ad from Keep America Beautiful from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:People_Start_Pollution_-_1971_Ad.jpg. Accessed 3/24/08.
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