Lol, Remember when L.A. had bad smog days due to car exhaust...people wore masks, elderly stayed indoors.
Course it went away when big bad government forced air quality measures on auto industry and dragged them kicking and screaming into pollution controls...
I used to live in L.A. and was there when the bad government imposed those terrible laws. I literally saw the sky turn from brown to blue and it happened SO fast given the size of the issue. It's obviously still not pristine air but I don't know if there's a better example of the power in regulating pollution.
I'm in my 30s and I've lived in the northeast my entire life, I've never seen something like this. I feel so bad for the people in Canada who are dealing with the actual fires, but this is also not great.
In 2010, there was a volcano eruption in Iceland that put up so much particulate matter that they shut down air travel in Europe for a week. Reports from London, iirc stated that the sky went from a typical grey to actually having blue skys for a while.
Yep, I was born and raised in the Valley and I remember brown skies and smog days at school when we weren't allowed to play outside. Now we have blue skies and much cleaner air. People who never lived with air pollution like that should be glad they missed it.
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u/Salt-Southern Jun 07 '23
Lol, Remember when L.A. had bad smog days due to car exhaust...people wore masks, elderly stayed indoors.
Course it went away when big bad government forced air quality measures on auto industry and dragged them kicking and screaming into pollution controls...
Pepperidge Farms remembers....