The catastrophic AQI levels we are experiencing in the west right now was just totally normal summertime air pollution levels in LA as recently as the mid 90s. https://t.co/VCDNNZYKry pic.twitter.com/emlHxj3A0q
— Wally Nowinski (@Nowooski) September 12, 2020
The point is not that the pollution is no big deal, it is that it used to be really really bad and then we somewhat fixed it.