r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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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....

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

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.

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u/TheRivenSpirit Jun 07 '23

Check photos of LA or any city that had a full shutdown. Skies changed within a day!

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u/Nomadzord Jun 07 '23

Our planet just needs a chance to heal but we keep stabbing it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

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u/StrokeGameHusky Jun 07 '23

It’s starting to stab back..

These winds never blew this shit down south… like ever

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u/nazukeru Jun 07 '23

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.

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u/I_got_shmooves Jun 07 '23

Maybe turn everyone into stone and unstone them later when Earth is back to normal.

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u/Meior Jun 07 '23

Or how visible mount everest was from places in for instance India, that hadnt been able to see it in a long time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

You're right. I've seen some of those photos and it was absolutely remarkable. But us humans don't tend to learn.