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Re:America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Stu... by cafard on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:48AM (#21713272)
Actually, it was pretty nasty during periods of US prosperity.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Donora_smog
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Re:America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Stu... by BurningFrog on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:14PM (#21716010)
GDP per person was $14k in 1948. It's $58k now.

Inflation adjusted, of course.

https://www.multpl.com/us-real-gdp-per-capita/table/by-year

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