horrific industrial accidents, airborne pollution that will slowly kill them or the swift death traffic acciden
I know two wrongs don't make a right but have to say, to some extent, been there, T-shirt etc.
I commenced work in 1957 and by the time I was twenty, I'd come extremely close to death in two incidents, one ashore and one in the MN.
In addition, almost drowned, fell off a bus, several pushbike and motorcycle and pedestrian accidents, stepped, inadvertently, off the back of a truck when 24 - this is boring me now; it could go on
We had coal fires then and I recollect fogs where you really had difficulty seeing more than a couple of yards.
We, in the West, have been through all that has been mentioned and more in our industrial revolution so forgive me if I refrain from piously wringing my hands over the trials and tribulations, no matter how serious and real, of others in their endeavours to join us.