I thought it was ozone holes
I thought it was ozone holes
I remember gathering in the gym to watch PBS productions in elementary school circa +/-1970 instilling fear into impressionable children over the deadly man made smog. Lots of film of LA tailpipes and close ups of OH coal fired power plant smokestacks.
The crying Indian commercials became the next rage ("pollution"). Paddling around a puddle and crying over a piece of trash.
In High School the depleted Ozone Hole became the next rage.
Meanwhile there was much discussion about the coming new ice age.
50 years later ... here we are. Cleaner air, cleaner water and more artificially generated fear of the ecological future than ever.
I remember gathering in the gym to watch PBS productions in elementary school circa +/-1970 instilling fear into impressionable children over the deadly man made smog. Lots of film of LA tailpipes and close ups of OH coal fired power plant smokestacks.
The crying Indian commercials became the next rage ("pollution"). Paddling around a puddle and crying over a piece of trash.
In High School the depleted Ozone Hole became the next rage.
Meanwhile there was much discussion about the coming new ice age.
50 years later ... here we are. Cleaner air, cleaner water and more artificially generated fear of the ecological future than ever.
I'm all for limiting pollution and being cleaner (within reason), but the over the top fear baiting has done a lot of damage to our civilization.
I'm all for limiting pollution and being cleaner (within reason), but the over the top fear baiting has done a lot of damage to our civilization.
Absolutely. We had stringent water/air standards set and over the next 30 years met or exceeded those goals. Then came Obummer and all of those standards were further tightened by 10X, what were agreed safe and tolerable trace amounts were no longer deemed "safe". Suddenly many people were installing filtration and mitigation systems in their homes and factories had to invest in more antipollution mitigation if they wanted to sell their homes.
My neighbor just sold their old new England farmhouse, had to install many thousands of dollars worth of radon mitigation for air and water + filtration for arsenic to satisfy the young new buyers who were artificially triggered by those artificially tight Obummer purity standards. The water was fine before, as was the air. No one that lived in that house over the last 70 years ever developed cancer or diagnosed with arsenic poisoning.
Insanity.
Absolutely. We had stringent water/air standards set and over the next 30 years met or exceeded those goals. Then came Obummer and all of those standards were further tightened by 10X, what were agreed safe and tolerable trace amounts were no longer deemed "safe". Suddenly many people were installing filtration and mitigation systems in their homes and factories had to invest in more antipollution mitigation if they wanted to sell their homes.
My neighbor just sold their old new England farmhouse, had to install many thousands of dollars worth of radon mitigation for air and water + filtration for arsenic to satisfy the young new buyers who were artificially triggered by those artificially tight Obummer purity standards. The water was fine before, as was the air. No one that lived in that house over the last 70 years ever developed cancer or diagnosed with arsenic poisoning.
Insanity.
Fun Fact, the plant near where I used to live, The Conesville Generating Station, was one of the worst polluters for acid rain. That all vanished one day when they put scrubbers on the stacks.
Fun Fact, the plant near where I used to live, The Conesville Generating Station, was one of the worst polluters for acid rain. That all vanished one day when they put scrubbers on the stacks.
I grew up about 5 states away, downwind of all that air coming out of Ohio. We had smog days in the hot, humid days of summer- a warning to those with breathing issues. The air usually smelled stale to varying degrees when we were getting winds from the southwest. When the air switched to coming from the northwest out of Canada, it was noticeably fresh and clean smelling (as long as there were no raging Canadian wildfires).
My sniffer isn't what it used to be but the air doesn't seen as stale anymore, the scrubbers did a great job. They put scrubbers on the paper mills here too. We used to get a strong rotten egg smell from the tall stack on the paper plant 15 miles away when the wind blew in our direction - it was so obnoxious! Scrubbers ended that phenomena by 1975-1980.
I grew up about 5 states away, downwind of all that air coming out of Ohio. We had smog days in the hot, humid days of summer- a warning to those with breathing issues. The air usually smelled stale to varying degrees when we were getting winds from the southwest. When the air switched to coming from the northwest out of Canada, it was noticeably fresh and clean smelling (as long as there were no raging Canadian wildfires).
My sniffer isn't what it used to be but the air doesn't seen as stale anymore, the scrubbers did a great job. They put scrubbers on the paper mills here too. We used to get a strong rotten egg smell from the tall stack on the paper plant 15 miles away when the wind blew in our direction - it was so obnoxious! Scrubbers ended that phenomena by 1975-1980.
I remember that smell, that sick sweet smell from a papermill. All of that's gone back home now. The mills, the power plant. Oh well.
I remember that smell, that sick sweet smell from a papermill. All of that's gone back home now. The mills, the power plant. Oh well.
No, no, no...it was Acid Rain!
No, no, no...it was Acid Rain!
Good 'ol Acid Rain. That was solved by the simple application of scrubbers on coal generator smokestacks.
Good 'ol Acid Rain. That was solved by the simple application of scrubbers on coal generator smokestacks.
That's the one I remember them fear mongering when I was a kid. Cars will be eaten through! You'll have to wear gear to go outside when it rains to keep your flesh from being burned! All the crops are gonna die!!!!!!!!!!
That's the one I remember them fear mongering when I was a kid. Cars will be eaten through! You'll have to wear gear to go outside when it rains to keep your flesh from being burned! All the crops are gonna die!!!!!!!!!!
Its called the invisible enemy. Its a tactic used to impose fear. It has been used many times over and people still fall for it. They love being afraid.
Its called the invisible enemy. Its a tactic used to impose fear. It has been used many times over and people still fall for it. They love being afraid.
I do remember it being a problem in some of the larger cities, but once industry here got cleaner and cars became more technologically advanced, that just sort of vanished.
I do remember it being a problem in some of the larger cities, but once industry here got cleaner and cars became more technologically advanced, that just sort of vanished.
I'm sure you understand that my point is that there is always something they push to make people afraid to keep control.
I'm sure you understand that my point is that there is always something they push to make people afraid to keep control.
Oh, absolutely. Be afraid of ___________ because it's going to getcha!
Oh, absolutely. Be afraid of ___________ because it's going to getcha!
To be fair, smog in some regions was pretty bad. I was in the east LA basin for a couple of years of college and there were afternoons it was literally difficult to breathe. I had to quit out of a bicycle ride one day because I just couldn't get a good breath. All of us that day were suffering. It was gross.
Today things are far nicer, but still the idiots find things to complain about.
To be fair, smog in some regions was pretty bad. I was in the east LA basin for a couple of years of college and there were afternoons it was literally difficult to breathe. I had to quit out of a bicycle ride one day because I just couldn't get a good breath. All of us that day were suffering. It was gross.
Today things are far nicer, but still the idiots find things to complain about.
They never lived up to the promise of acid rain.
They never lived up to the promise of acid rain.
Thank goodness we were all saved from the fire breathing dragon smog by the crooked nosed goblin bankers' early interventions.
Thank goodness we were all saved from the fire breathing dragon smog by the crooked nosed goblin bankers' early interventions.
You gotta take the ring to Mordor
You gotta take the ring to Mordor
I'm still waiting for the mini ice age that we were all taught about in the early 1970's in junior school here in the UK, it was definitely coming and on top of that we were going to run out of oil, coal etc by the 1990's.
Complete and utter bullshit.
I'm still waiting for the mini ice age that we were all taught about in the early 1970's in junior school here in the UK, it was definitely coming and on top of that we were going to run out of oil, coal etc by the 1990's.
Complete and utter bullshit.
It's going to happen real soon now.
It's going to happen real soon now.
As a resident of Los Angeles since the 60's Smog was Definitely Going to Kill us. As much as I hate the CARB, EPA and LAQMD; being able to see from Buena Park to Northridge? 60 Miles and Thats fucking awesome. My house growing up was two miles from the San Gabriel Mountains. Couldn't see them on a Summer Afternoon. Today from my childhood home, you can see to the coast 30 miles away.
OP don't be dumber than a nigger. Its not a good look on you. Pick another Climate change lie.
As a resident of Los Angeles since the 60's Smog was Definitely Going to Kill us. As much as I hate the CARB, EPA and LAQMD; being able to see from Buena Park to Northridge? 60 Miles and Thats fucking awesome. My house growing up was two miles from the San Gabriel Mountains. Couldn't see them on a Summer Afternoon. Today from my childhood home, you can see to the coast 30 miles away.
OP don't be dumber than a nigger. Its not a good look on you. Pick another Climate change lie.
No, smog was going to kill us all, when all it took to fix that was making sure cars were actually burning the gasoline that went into the engine instead of spewing out unburnt messes of crap.
It's like acid rain, that was solved by scrubbers. Simple solutions for "You're all gonna die problems."
No, smog was going to kill us all, when all it took to fix that was making sure cars were actually burning the gasoline that went into the engine instead of spewing out unburnt messes of crap.
It's like acid rain, that was solved by scrubbers. Simple solutions for "You're all gonna die problems."
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