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by throwaway0a5e 1703 days ago
>The UK in 1930 was much more polluted than the USSR and China at that time.

And how industrialized were the USSR and China in 1930?

When a larger part of your economy is agrarian you're going to be incapable of polluting the shit out of everything to the same extent as more industrialized nations.