[ghaff]

I mean, one can always point to negative consequences of change, but if you look at the overall results of industrial advance it's pretty hard to see the net negative for most people. Social advance on a lot of different axes had pretty impressive growth because of the industrial revolution.

[GimbalLock]

That's great. I'll keep that in mind from my front row seat to the climate catastrophe, and as every day, ~19k people die from man-made air pollution. [1]

It is all a net positive somehow... Sure.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

[ghaff]

Because coal-fired air quality in places like London was so great before the industrial revolution really got rolling. Or even wood fires in homes without chimneys in many places around the world.

> It is all a net positive somehow... Sure.

So yeah.