Originally Posted by stickyfingerz

If you consider smog (most of which was pictures of the San Fernado valley, and if you understood why smog settles there, you might have a clue) anywhere near close to the levels we had up to the mid to late 80's pollution well... Its like calling a kiddy pool the atlantic. Everyone back then primarily burned coal, or wood to heat their homes, factories had smoke pouring out of their smoke stacks unfiltered in the air. Soot would fall all over the place getting in your lungs. What we have now compared to the period known as the industrial revolution is like filtered spring water compared to drinking shit out of someones ass.