After a string of “helpfully pessimistic” articles explaining why all attempts to sustain industrial civilization violate the laws of physics—and therefore are in vain
So crazy I actually clicked the link to read more…
Author acts like infant mortality rates playing into average lifespan is a huge secret, then talks about how bad a desk job is, like for most of human history what we now consider “minor” injuries were death sentences…
Less than 200 years any serious limb injury meant amputation, because we were so ignorant of infection that was the best shot at survival.
During the US civil war a bioluminescent fungus that kind worked like penicillin randomly spread after a battle saving a bunch of lives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorhabdus_luminescens
And the medical consensus at the time was “God did it”.
The industrial revolution ended in the 1840s and that was 1860s, well post industrial. And it only gets worse the further back you go.
During the US civil war a bioluminescent fungus that kind worked like penicillin randomly spread after a battle saving a bunch of lives:
cool!
Before the antibiotic era there was a dude that survived cholera or other epidemic in trench warfare WWI they found a particular strain of ecoli he harbored and preserved it and there is a company that still sells it .