First they came for the whale oil lamps
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Context: "Just saw one of those “look what they’ve taken from us” trad tweets and it was about sodium vapor streetlights."
First they came for the whale oil lamps, but I said nothing, as whale oil had been made obsolete by gas lighting, sparing the whales much suffering.
Then they came for the gas lighting, but again I said nothing, as it had been replaced by safer and cheaper sodium lamps.
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- Post @ Twitter (20 March 2023)
- History of street lighting @ Wikipedia