They didn't have plastics, but 19th century western life was already massive trainwreck ecologically and in no way sustainable. Also mid 19th century is poor e

They didn't have plastics, but 19th century western life was already massive trainwreck ecologically and in no way sustainable. Also mid 19th century is poor example because the modernity was extremely unevenly distributed. Sure, upper class Londoner might have lived very modern life, but that is hardly representative of the era in general