And pre internal combustion engine the streets had a different pollution
problem, notwithstanding road accidents were still commonplace, being run
over by a heavy but slow cart was as devastating as being hit by a fast car,
look at the literature of the times, it can inform us a great deal about
what it was like to live in those days.
In a time when ones own energy was needed for everyday living there was a
whole different set of disabling criteria, however these days it has moved
in this energy consuming society towards increasing the disability of those
who are less able to adapt to the technological and IT demands of society.
Larry
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> Subject: Re: Vulnerable adults / violent streets
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> Hi Lauro,
> I'm not sure but I think language is an element of confusion in present
societies;
> especially in the communities that were/are oppressed. If we are to change
attitude,
> thinking/action, our terminology should re-new. I suggest the term
pre-social model
> society, similar prehistoric society, pre-modernist society, and explain
the external
> environments barriers and non safety therein for all people, ex pre curb
cut, not only
> were people who use a wheelchair unable to use the streets but men with
heavier push
> cart and women with baby strollers had difficulties that they were not
aware of until
> their middle age when they developed back issues or slipped fell and got
injured.
> I hope I explained that one OK.
> Maria
>
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