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Re:A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the... by emmelaich on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:52PM (#14162762)
Oh, here's some "reading" (what's with the quotes?)

Recent Venezualan Oil Tankers banned from many harbours.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-tankers-insi...

Less Recent (Soviet Era) https://fee.org/articles/why-socialism-causes-pollution/

You might not like fee.org so here's a Wikipedia quote.

    "Kraków, Poland was covered by smog 135 days per year,
    while Wrocław was covered by a fog of chrome gas"
(from the Eastern Bloc article on Wikipedia)

There is a common cause of neglect of the environment in both so-called Communist and Capitalist countries.

I urge you to discover what that is for yourself.

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Re:A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the... by NoGravitas on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:27AM (#14164887)
> There is a common cause of neglect of the environment in both so-called Communist and Capitalist countries.

Rapid industrialization? That would explain worse pollution in Soviet-bloc countries: they industrialized faster than capitalist western Europe/USA because they were playing catch-up.

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