We all know the old world was made of wood. Not just houses and ships, but everything. Bowls, tools, carts, you name it. They were constantly sanding, cutting, and carving this shit 24/7.My question is, how the FUCK did they deal with the microwood? You can't tell me they were just breathing in and eating wood dust all day long. Every piece of bread, every sip of beer, every breath in a carpenter's shop must have been full of tiny wood particles.
>>17983219they just hawk tuah spit on that thang before it got too dusty
Sawdust gets biodegraded way before it could have any bad effect. In fact its effect was mostly good, some people still use it today in agriculture...Unlike fucking cosmic level threat shit like microplastic and heavy metals
>>17983219Wood carvings could be used as flooring material on packed earth grounds or in other workspaces.And ultimately they handled the abrasions of wood (which weren't nearly as omipresent as you make them out to be) the same way we handle the abrasion of the various plastics: they simply lived with it.
>>17983219Wood is mostly just cellulose. It's not much of a toxin.
They used a lot of green wood construction
>>17983219anything God provided has a million year history of interacting with human biology. Dust is only a concern if you're grinding up and snorting dead dinosaurs on purpose.
>>17983252What's the critical mass of microplastics? What happens when we achieve it? Is everyone just going to start getting aneurysms and organ failure all at once?
>>17983499Children of Men
>>17983504Kino. I'll just be like Mike Cocaine and live in a cabin innawoods smoking weed with my catatonic wife.
>>17983219Sanding was way less common back in the days. The standard surface finish was done with planes.
>>17983219Microdirt
> You can't tell me they were just breathing in and eating wood dust all day long They sort of were. Ancient diets and methods of fermentation might have reduced bacterial contamination, but particles were unavoidable.
>>17983219They probably just died early and called it a cold or something.
>>17983219All other responses are correct, and I’ll throw in that it’s shit like this which gives anprims and demodernists ammunition that civilization/society/et al is a mistake. It’s the same reason why we can dig up generations of peoples from around the world and find that pre-agriculture individuals were more robust while post-agriculture samples are shorter and have more brittle bones. I remember reading that they found post-ag fossils in Ireland had huuuuge dental issues (holes, deformations) resultant from grit and stone in flour being ground from wheat to make bread.
