Posted on 04/30/2018 7:46:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Experiment: Send all of them back to Mexico and track the air pollution for twenty years.
The anti-science leftists will never go for this.
“climate change is making the situation worse, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.”
Well, we can put the American Lung Association on the list of scumbag leftard coprophages.
“Is this guy implying that that polluted air remains static - “
A virtue signaling,friend of the poor and downtrodden,moron.
Air pollution in Southern California is nothing like it was during the 1940's-1980's. In those days, the weather forecasts on the radio would feature eye-irritation reports. For example, if you tuned into KHJ's 20-20 News at 20 minutes after the hour in 1968, the weatherman would say,
"And now for the weather: Night and early morning low clouds along the coast, otherwise fair. For Downtown LA, light to moderate eye irritation with a high of 81 and a low of 63. For the San Fernando Valley, heavy eye irritation, with a high of 89 and a low of 61. For the beaches, low to moderate eye irritation, with highs in the low seventies and lows in the low sixties."Thank goodness, eye-irritation reports are a thing of the past.
You’re absolutely right. Air pollution is down something like 90% since 1970. All of California is subject to stagnant weather patterns, particularly in summer. Everyone is exposed to unhealthy air at times. This is just more agitprop
This subject is all they are talking about at all the Starbucks......
Spring time in *kaff* Beijing or *kaff wheeze* Shanghai *gasp ... gasp ... inhale cough hack cough ...*
Children and minorities hit hardest.
Low income Californians are most vulnerable to starvation and homelessness... how about you worry about that before you claim climate is their biggest threat.
Honestly you have 14 or 15 people living in 3 bedroom homes because pooling that much low pay work is the only prayer they have of not being homeless.
Which comedian used to say: in LA they don’t trust any air they cannot see?? That was some time ago, so, it seems to me this is not a recent problem especially to my eye, the smog over the LA basin has not been anywhere near where it was 30 years ago.
One other thing that I recall being funny was individuals who moved to LA during the summer months used to be surprised to note there were mountains to the east as the San Bernadino Mts (?) were obscured till the winter.
I grew up in SoCal in the 50s. Most days the sky had an orange tint to it. You knew it was a bad day when you couldn’t see the ‘Hollywood’ sign or the hill it was on.
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Most of the air pollution in California comes from China.
That's it. Not one more penny to the environmental agencies and all the other govt entities trying to suppress CO2. (Which is not a pollutant: it's an atmospheric fertilizer).
Forget about benign, trace amounts of carbon dioxide (still at carbon-famine levels, less than 450 ppm.) You're supposed to be stopping actual pollutants, like ozone and particulates.
Get back to work.
“90 percent of California residents are exposed to unhealthy air at some point during the year”
Duh.
“the poor are more likely than wealthier people to live close to freeways, railways, factories, transportation hubs and other air pollution sources because rents and home prices in those areas are cheaper.”
Vague accusation. Objective analysis? Living in high-density high-demand areas will, of course, mean the cheapest land is closest to most undesirable areas ... and is likely _still_ substantially more expensive than economically equivalent options elsewhere. Despite the Left’s tendency to think anywhere other than top cities are utterly uninhabitable, “MOVE” is valid advice.
I’m digging around LA on Zillow.com, looking for high-air-pollution areas. First looked up cheap housing ($600/mo for 1 bedroom in a 2-br 1.5-ba unit), then found real estate nearby in a high-pollution area (tucked into a freeway cloverleaf interchange). What I find is _minimum_ price of >$300k condo 3-br, and a nearby detached 810 sq ft 3-br home for $462k.
So to bracket the bottom end: $600/mo for 1 br, >$450k for very small 3 br home.
And that’s on the premise that “rent & home prices in [high pollution] areas are cheaper”.
OMGWTFBBQ.
I have a home costing 60% of that, is 3x bigger, and has no pollution issues. It’s about 1 mile to public transport into Atlanta; cost probably comparable to LA. Digging more, I find another 1-br apartment for $950 looking about as “poor” as I can find - and costing more than half my mortgage.
Why are “the poor” trying to make ends meet in areas that upper-middle-class people would find challenging?
Why do Leftists insist that “the poor” be forcefully accommodated in areas of extremely high demand (dictating high prices)? Why is “MOVE” never considered a viable option?
Don’t want to live in “climate change exacerbated air pollution”? Move somewhere cheaper with more options and practically no pollution! there’s high pollution in “low income CA areas” precisely because so darned many people want to be there - including those who can’t afford it.
Quick! Make a run for the border!
I was visiting Pasadena from my office in Tucson for work in 1979. First time there. Hazy each day that week.
Friday morning I was heading out of the Pasadena office, and I was startled to see that the San Gabriel mountains are practically right behind the office. I hadn’t seen them the whole time I was there.
Now I can see those mountains (relatively) clearly from home in Anaheim, 35 miles away.
Someone needs to point out to Dr. Afif that the reason that air pollution in the Los Angeles Basin is so bad is that there are too many people living there. He somehow misses the connection between the numbers residents and the level of pollution. It is patent bull$hit to try to make the argument that the poor ( Mostly illegals from Mexico) are “victims” of the pollution that they, in and of themselves, are the major contributors. But at the same time, if they came from Mexico City, they are living in much cleaner air than they left, so why is there a bitch? I guess Dr. Afif doesn’t understand the concept of “$hitting in your own nest!”
Link please?
If the pollution didn't settle in the Pacific on it's 7,000 mile journey from China to California, what is the science for it settling in California?
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