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In reply to the discussion: The Smog In China Should Terrify You [View all]Gregorian
(23,867 posts)48. That looks like Los Angeles in the early 60's. I remember.
We could hardly read the highway signs to get off the freeway.
Also, China is making OUR stuff. So we share in this mess.
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Absolutely. At the beginning of the industrial age London had problems because of burning coal.
jwirr
Jan 2013
#19
Very much so. And believe it or not, some big wigs here supported moving the polluting industries
freshwest
Jan 2013
#23
If you dig on the BBC radio sites somewhere you'll find a great 60th anniversary series about it
Blue_Tires
Jan 2013
#70
It's absurd to think this much pollution doesn't have an effect on the global environment
Hugabear
Jan 2013
#4
When I got a job at a steel mill in Chicago the sky was filkled with smoke.
former9thward
Jan 2013
#9
No doubt the Chinese environmental movement is gaining great strength from this
Uncle Joe
Jan 2013
#31
Well now she is already almost 10 years older...and I'll bet healthy as can be.
Auntie Bush
Jan 2013
#20
but see, that's ok because your "selfish" desire motivated you to do something Good.
BlancheSplanchnik
Jan 2013
#61
London had its "pea soup fog" in the 19th century; Los Angeles had its smog in the 20th
Hekate
Jan 2013
#32
In both cases, the price of cleaning up the air was the loss of global economic dominance
GliderGuider
Jan 2013
#35
I don't think this is the case. The sun setting on the British Empire had nothing to do with...
Hekate
Jan 2013
#41
They are a foggy city, as I understand it. "Pea soup fog" had a lot of coal smoke in it.
Hekate
Jan 2013
#40
For London at least the coal smoke was the main culprit - and went back centuries.
whopis01
Jan 2013
#66
As bad as it is in China, the smog in Donora, PA in 1948 may have been worse....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#50
One thing different this time, it's scientists, not clergy, predicting bad things to come
Kennah
Jan 2013
#88
This is not China's air. This is everyone's air, planetwide. Air knows no borders.
Coyotl
Jan 2013
#71