alt Hacker News> Not sure from the page but I rode one coal powered steam train in Poland for “fun” and i wish i never did. It was an open carriage trip in koszalin and the pollution it did was such that coal particles rained on everyone. It was awful and I don’t get the nostalgia of riding such an obsolete vehicle. I was so outraged about it I told my wife the experience was like trying to experience a big pre industrial city without sewage system and finding it nostalgic.
From a post earlier today
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From somebody else's post, to be clear. So the point is ... the coal-smoke environments of the industrial revolution, which replaced natural environments, were also awful, being full of grime and cinders instead of sweat and insects. For this reason we progressed even further. You might observe that we're never satisfied, but that doesn't mean that all situations are equivalent and activity is futile.
The title says hunter gatherers. That's totally different from life 150 years ago. It's even different from the medieval or agrarian iron age times.