This is probably true with a caveat. The importance was retrospectively magnified by the fossil fuel revolution.
Without unprecedented energy appearing shortly thereafter, would just be another fairly typical happening in the later days of a civilization.
Without unprecedented energy appearing shortly thereafter, would just be another fairly typical happening in the later days of a civilization.
https://twitter.com/GiovanniMandev1/status/1638715002247958529
Most likely the Old Western Civ was heading towards its predictable cyclical end ~1900 in any case.
It got unexpectedly juiced by post-1800 FF, flourished like a plant on fertilizer for a century, then imploded spectacularly in WWI.
Then the new thing started.
It got unexpectedly juiced by post-1800 FF, flourished like a plant on fertilizer for a century, then imploded spectacularly in WWI.
Then the new thing started.
Understand that a very high percent of the best Art, Architecture and so forth in human history was created between 1800 and about 1920.
The last of the old world was stimulated to new heights by the incoming new world.
Even the techne of that time was still artistic.
The last of the old world was stimulated to new heights by the incoming new world.
Even the techne of that time was still artistic.
And if you think about it, much of the art and so forth produced between 1800 and 1920 would *not* have occurred in a world without coal.
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