🔥 The Left HATES It. But the Industrial Revolution is one of the greatest blessings in history.
It ended:
Child labor.
Slavery.
Mass starvation.
It created modern life.
It even saved the whales!
And it was powered by oil, coal, and gas.
What they don't want you to know 👇
It ended:
Child labor.
Slavery.
Mass starvation.
It created modern life.
It even saved the whales!
And it was powered by oil, coal, and gas.
What they don't want you to know 👇
2/🛑 The Left wants you to believe the Industrial Revolution caused suffering.
They call it:
• Exploitative
• Racist
• Polluting
• Fueled by slavery
But here’s the truth: it cured all of that.
And it freed the world from millennia of misery.
They call it:
• Exploitative
• Racist
• Polluting
• Fueled by slavery
But here’s the truth: it cured all of that.
And it freed the world from millennia of misery.
3/⚙️ For 99% of human history, we lived like animals.
• No electricity
• No plumbing
• No antibiotics
• No heat
• No sanitation
• No refrigeration
We burned wood and muscle to survive—and enslaved people to generate the labor we couldn’t.
• No electricity
• No plumbing
• No antibiotics
• No heat
• No sanitation
• No refrigeration
We burned wood and muscle to survive—and enslaved people to generate the labor we couldn’t.
4/⛏ Fossil fuels changed that.
Cheap, concentrated, abundant energy gave us:
• Modern agriculture
• Mass production
• Clean water
• Electric light
• Long-distance travel
• Steel, glass, concrete
Fossil fuels turned civilization on.
Cheap, concentrated, abundant energy gave us:
• Modern agriculture
• Mass production
• Clean water
• Electric light
• Long-distance travel
• Steel, glass, concrete
Fossil fuels turned civilization on.
5/ 👶 What about child labor and slavery?
They were universal before the steam engine.
Children worked from the moment they could walk. Slavery existed on every continent. Why?
Because human labor was ENERGY. There was no alternative.
Until fossil fuels.
They were universal before the steam engine.
Children worked from the moment they could walk. Slavery existed on every continent. Why?
Because human labor was ENERGY. There was no alternative.
Until fossil fuels.
6/🇬🇧 Britain led the way.
Coal-powered machines replaced slave-powered economies.
Steam engines replaced child labor.
Farms became efficient. Cities grew. Wages rose. Poverty fell.
By the mid-1800s, both slavery and child labor were vanishing—because they weren’t needed.
Coal-powered machines replaced slave-powered economies.
Steam engines replaced child labor.
Farms became efficient. Cities grew. Wages rose. Poverty fell.
By the mid-1800s, both slavery and child labor were vanishing—because they weren’t needed.
7/🚫 Britain didn’t just ban the slave trade in 1807—they used fossil-fueled naval supremacy to enforce that ban across the world.
You don’t abolish slavery with lectures. You abolish it with ships, power, and wealth.
You don’t abolish slavery with lectures. You abolish it with ships, power, and wealth.
8/👕 Before industrialization, a shirt was a luxury.
As late as the 1700s, people fought over the clothes of the dead.
After coal-fired textile mills?
Clothing was cheap. Sanitation improved. Plague declined.
Energy equals prosperity.
As late as the 1700s, people fought over the clothes of the dead.
After coal-fired textile mills?
Clothing was cheap. Sanitation improved. Plague declined.
Energy equals prosperity.
9/🌍 The truth is:
• Modern fossil fuels are far cleaner than pre-industrial wood and dung
• Forests have grown back since we stopped burning them
• Burning oil instead of whale oil saved the whales!
• And industry lifted billions out of poverty
• Modern fossil fuels are far cleaner than pre-industrial wood and dung
• Forests have grown back since we stopped burning them
• Burning oil instead of whale oil saved the whales!
• And industry lifted billions out of poverty
10/ 📚 Don’t let Marxist professors rewrite history.
The Industrial Revolution didn’t cause suffering. It exposed it—and cured it.
Oil, coal, and gas made everything you take for granted possible.
This is a story of liberation. Not oppression.
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The Industrial Revolution didn’t cause suffering. It exposed it—and cured it.
Oil, coal, and gas made everything you take for granted possible.
This is a story of liberation. Not oppression.
rodmartin.org/p/how-capitali…
11/💡Every iPhone, every lightbulb, every hospital, every tractor, every highway, every plane, every skyscraper—exists because of fossil fuels.
Before the Industrial Revolution, the average person lived on less than $2 a day.
In fact, 94% of the world lived in extreme poverty!
Before the Industrial Revolution, the average person lived on less than $2 a day.
In fact, 94% of the world lived in extreme poverty!
12/🔥 Want a real revolution? Defend the one that worked.
Celebrate fossil fuels.
Celebrate industry.
Celebrate abundance.
Celebrate freedom.
And never apologize for the energy that made America great, strong, and free.
Celebrate fossil fuels.
Celebrate industry.
Celebrate abundance.
Celebrate freedom.
And never apologize for the energy that made America great, strong, and free.
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