Lyric discussion by fanofoldies 

To Stingfan: I was in college in 1983. The environment was definitely a hot topic. The big concerns were acid rain and nuclear fallout. It was only a few years after the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant incident. The prospect of nuclear war was also looming. One of the most-watched TV movies that year, The Day After, was about a nuclear holocaust.

As many have said before, the essence of Synchronicity is that the events that have no causal relationship, and are not taking place in the same place, but nonetheless, are somehow connected. That's why the Police repeat (over and over) the lines "many miles away".

@fanofoldies absolutely, the last possible date for the rise of environmental concerns would be 1962 with the publication of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' and probably earlier with the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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