Comment by felipeerias
4 hours ago
People had been hunting whales for centuries, but industrialisation gave them the means and the motivation to do so until near extinction.
4 hours ago
People had been hunting whales for centuries, but industrialisation gave them the means and the motivation to do so until near extinction.
Most of humanity survived on agriculture and sometimes hunting-gathering for last 10k years. People that survived on hunting whales is minuscule. Comparing those two is nonsensical.
Read Moby Dick some time my friend.
The industrial revolution is generally understood to have started somewhere around 1760, Moby Dick took place in approximately 1830, about 10 years before what some historians mark as the end of the agrarian to Industrial shift that is generally termed the Industrial revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
I get sort of wishy-washy from 1830 on, because lots of people put the end of the Industrial revolution as being 1900, but 1840 is a defensible and commonly held position.