It was mostly used to slow down development and industrialisation of nations. Probably by guilt tripping developing world with the idea that the developing worl

It was mostly used to slow down development and industrialisation of nations. Probably by guilt tripping developing world with the idea that the developing world would need to get western loans and green technology from the west. That whole process is just a dirty process at least it still was during the 20th century. In 2020s there are other that came or are coming online with the Chinese and Russians willing to build nuclear power plants in the developing world and off course renewable energy is becoming cheaper every year thanks to Chinese industrial and research capabilities. It might be that China is the last country to go through an extremely dirty development cycle.