Victorian London's famous fog was actually coal smoke pollution mixed with natural fog, creating yellow smog that coated buildings, clothes, and lungs, causing widespread respiratory illness in industrial areas where factories operated continuously; society tolerated these dangerous conditions because the wealth generated by industrial progress was valued more than public safety.
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Modern movies love portraying Victorian fog as the soft cinematic mist rolling through gaslit streets.
But a lot of the famous fog was actually pollution.
Coal smoke mixed with natural fog to create yellow thick smog that coated buildings, clothes, lungs, basically everything. Respiratory illness became incredibly common, especially in the industrial areas where factory chimneys never seemed to stop running.
But factories generated so much wealth that society tolerated these awful conditions. Progress mattered more than safety.
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