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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18

    Arthur Chu Retweeted Jaron Lukas  💭

    Fun fact: As different as our ancient ancestors were from us in many ways, they also did not like freezing to death People being too poor to have enough firewood to keep themselves and their children from freezing in the winter was considered a moral and political problemhttps://twitter.com/jaronlukas/status/1362495637489471488 …

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    Jaron Lukas  💭 @jaronlukas
    Replying to @reservoirpawgs
    Don't forget this was the human condition until 150 years ago. We didn't have power and heating until recently. However, if we want to prevent these unexpected events from impacting us in the future, we need leaders who expect 6-sigma climate change events occur and plan for it.
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      1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18

        Dickens' A Christmas Carol was more than 150 years ago (178 years ago) and it portrays a man who allows his employee and his family's health to suffer from lack of money for fuel in a fairly negative light

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      2. Zendervai‏ @Zendervai Feb 18
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        The idea that people in the past were just like "eh, let's just let huge chunks of our workforce and farmer die every winter" is bizarre. The nobility didn't care *that* much, but feudal workforces worked better if you didn't replace it on a regular basis.

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      3. Zendervai‏ @Zendervai Feb 18
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        This insistence that the capitalist concept of "just throw as many people into the grinder as possible, disturbingly high turnover rates aren't a problem" being a norm throughout history is really messing me up. The higher death rates were a real problem back then.

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      1. Brigid Keely‏ @brigidkeely Feb 18
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        "We didn't have power and heating" but we did! Wood! Coal! Oil! I'm going to treat "power" as "lighting" and shake my fists while talking about torches, candles, oil lamps, kerosene lamps, gas lights and I'm sure there's more!!!

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      2. a catherine scorned‏ @georgetakesajob Feb 18
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        An impoverished child freezing to death was sort of society's iconic "innocent victim", if anything. It personified the moral crisis that clearly was felt by a *ton* of city-dwelling writers, when people die from the cold down the road from people who never even had to feel it.

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      3. a catherine scorned‏ @georgetakesajob Feb 18
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        "The Little Match Girl" does not suggest that people 175 years ago thought children freezing to death was normal and fine

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      2. Mary Pezzulo Does Not Have A Valid Occupation‏ @mary_pezzulo Feb 18
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        150 years ago we didn't have climate change-related polar vortexes. 150 years ago if you build yourself a house on the Texas frontier it had a wood stove or a fireplace to cook with indoors so you could keep yourself warm. 150 years ago you got water from the well...

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      3. Mary Pezzulo Does Not Have A Valid Occupation‏ @mary_pezzulo Feb 18
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        ...so your pipes didn't freeze but on the other hand you could always catch the cholera and die. 150 years ago smallpox and cow pox and malaria and no penicillin. I don't get the point they're making at all.

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