The greatest environmental problem of the 1950s was
A) the increasing level of ultraviolet radiation as the ozone layer was destroyed.
B) global climate change illustrated by the worldwide decline of thousands of glaciers.
C) widespread and easily detected water and air pollution.
D) thousands of nuclear power plants that spread radiation across the globe.
C
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