Los Angeles is one of the most polluted major cities in the United States, behind Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. For years Los Angeles has been covered by clouds of smog caused by an over abundance of pollution. The main cause of the pollution in Los Angeles is from the automobiles and the industrial/manufacturing of products. Over the past 100 years, the air in Los Angeles was scientifically proven to be unhealthy so, during the 1960s and 1970s, government set up laws against the amount of air pollution Los Angeles could make. Scientist found that the amount of pollution crated in Los Angeles was deadly to the O-Zone and caused a larger hole to be ripped into it.
At its peak of pollution, Los Angeles was virtually unseen from less than a mile away. The only way people could see L.A. from a distance was looking for the tops of the sky scrapers. Now, in 2011, the smog has virtually disappeared. Los Angeles can be seen from miles away now due to the strict laws to cut pollution and now that more people are going green, they cut back on the majority of pollution.
This Smog isn't just effecting the people on the west coast, this will effect the people who are back wind to them, like India and other Pacific places like China, Japan, Vietnam, and some entering the middle east. This is a problem that we must take care of, who is stopping other countries from doing the same thing to us in the United States?
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