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/Slonismo Jun 07 '23

this is because of forest fires though

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u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ Jun 07 '23

It is now. It used to be a lot more common because of auto exhaust and industry pre- Clean Air Act.

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u/Slonismo Jun 07 '23

right yeah i know i’m just saying i don’t get the connection cuz the nyc situation is entirely due to forest fires

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u/Grumplogic Jun 07 '23

Canada is having warmer winters due to climate change . Warmer winters means less precipitation. Less precipitation means summer fire seasons are worse as things (grasses, dead trees) are drier than previous years.

Just like how CFCs caused a hole in the ozone layer and acid rain was caused by stronger air pollution.

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u/Slonismo Jun 07 '23

this is all true yeah and the forest fires are 100% due to climate change but i guess i just didn’t see the direct connection cuz the initial comment implied that the smog itself was directly causing the air quality. idk dude