All the pictures with the air pollution look the same.

When I was about 13, in 1973, my parents and I went on a trip to NYC. I actually still have the picture I took of the Statue of Liberty shrouded in a kind of brownish-gray smog. That smog, which smelled as bad as it looked, is the one memory of that trip that has stayed with me for almost 50 years. Then, in 1974, we moved to Los Angeles, where the local morning news would give the smog report, and list who could go outside (generally children and old folks) and who should not. I remember PE classes having to be held inside instead of outside on those days. That was back when cars still ran on leaded gas too. That means my generation, and the generations before that breathed while cars spewed lead in their exhaust, have traces of lead in our lungs that post-catalytic converter generations won’t. We’ve done a good job of cleaning our air, but it’s been a drop in the bucket compared to what we actually have to do—-and should’ve started doing long before my 1973 trip to NYC.

i don't think a view full of steel and concrete is anything worth looking at anyway, so the fogginess is an improvement, though not really for lung health. But there are probably people who would say a view of nothing but a bunch of mile high rocks and trees is nothing worth looking at so.. whatever.

bro everyone needs to stop polluting the air now

I really hope the whole world doesn't come to this. Even seeing these simulations is making me a little depressed..

So what's the point of putting the same filter on all the toutistic photos? I lived near Paris for a time and saw what people call the "pollution dome" above the city when the sky is blue and the temperature rises. It's more impactful than this filter on the EIFFEL tower, not Montparnasse. And since then, it has been reduced by political measures aimed at reducing traffic and the use of fossil fuels.

Made me need to wheeze just looking at them.

The Photoshop is weak in this one.