Lucky for us the air quality in the U.S. has improved by huge leaps over recent years.
“Lucky for us the air quality in the U.S. has improved by huge leaps over recent years”
Yes. We have exported our pollution to China and India, and the jobs that come with it.
We have more time on our hands now so we can fingerpaint or do some other worth while artistically creative activity as long as it doesn’t cost any money...
Heavy industry production jobs were in a large part unskilled, or low skilled jobs that could be done by the unambitious represented by unions that drove wages above realistic levels for unskilled and low skilled jobs. Combine environmental regulations that at first were intended to reign in unnecessary flagrant polluting and eventually became the tool of politicians to outlaw industry with big business complicit to move manufacturing to third and old world nations where slave labor is available and environmental regulations do not exist then presto! a population on the dole dependent on the elected to meet living expenses and fingerpainting supplies. Of course, the skilled labor jobs, like welders, machinists and mechanics went away too. And so did the engineering, drafting and management jobs.
A nation of lowered mediocrity.
At least we have our flat screens, beer and queers&thugs NFL.