I expect that somebody said something similar when horses began to be displaced by cars in the early 20th century.
Horse usage had become so widespread and commonplace that just dealing with the crap left on the streets had become a problem of its own. The massive industry that existed to service horse ownership almost changed overnight as the popularity of cars increased quickly.
By the 1930s the use of horses as a main form of transport was in steep decline.
“Few realize that we adopted the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle in part as an environmental response to the disastrous use of horses in major urban areas – and that gasoline was originally a useless waste byproduct of making kerosene for lamps.
But transitions are hard… even ones as obviously beneficial as getting rid of horsesh*t and dead horses from the streets of major cities."
https://www.blog.greenprojectmanage...tion-why-we-replaced-horses-with-automobiles/
Horse usage had become so widespread and commonplace that just dealing with the crap left on the streets had become a problem of its own. The massive industry that existed to service horse ownership almost changed overnight as the popularity of cars increased quickly.
By the 1930s the use of horses as a main form of transport was in steep decline.
“Few realize that we adopted the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle in part as an environmental response to the disastrous use of horses in major urban areas – and that gasoline was originally a useless waste byproduct of making kerosene for lamps.
But transitions are hard… even ones as obviously beneficial as getting rid of horsesh*t and dead horses from the streets of major cities."
https://www.blog.greenprojectmanage...tion-why-we-replaced-horses-with-automobiles/