Michael Pollan claims that alcohol was safer than water, then coffee came and boiling water stopped people from being drunk all the time, fueling the industrial

Michael Pollan claims that alcohol was safer than water, then coffee came and boiling water stopped people from being drunk all the time, fueling the industrial revolution. There are still pockets of old habits where kids are given wine assuming it gives them strength, in Georgia and Abkhazia, where it is a big problem now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD6cYabx0nk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD6cYabx0nk