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It's Humans, hi, we're the problem, it's us.
In the case of LA specifically, it's the cars. That's what's changed in this picture - no cars on the road commuting to work.
People driving cars, making cars. We are overpopulated. When lemmings or any other animal gets overpopulated, they get some disease and numbers get lower. When we get that, we overcome the obstacle and the population doesn't get significantly reduced. That is why we keep fucking up the planet. Nothing to stop us, except ourselves. And if that happens, we take all other life with us.
Fun fact: a large part of Berlin (3.4 million inhabitants) has no light pollution and you also don't have a yellow fug covering the city. Guess why.