Yes I inverted it to burning coal is called the industrial revolution because I think it’s neat way to look at it.

I’m thinking through the history of energy: We burned wood. Then we burned coal. Then we burned oil. Then we burned atoms.

  • someguy3@lemmy.worldOP
    13·
    2 months ago

    Yes I inverted it to burning coal is called the industrial revolution because I think it’s neat way to look at it.

    • SSTF@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’m not sure what you mean by this. The industrial revolutions were not just about burning coal.

      • someguy3@lemmy.worldOP
        14·
        2 months ago

        It’s useful to think about things by turning them on their head, aka inverting them. In this case: Burning of coal facilitated the industrial revolution. Yes, yes, yes, I know all the things that it was not caused by the burning of coal, it as not “just about burning coal”, it was not named because of the burning of coal, things were iterative, etc, etc, etc. But it behooves you turn things on their head and think through them in different ways.

        In the bigger sense of turning things on their head, we can look at energy sources as we go through history: We burned wood. Then we burned coal. Then we burned oil. Then we burned atoms.