preindustrial

British  

/ ˌpriːɪnˈdʌstrɪəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a society, age, etc, before industrialization

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Example Sentences

COP30, as this year’s event is known, marks 10 years since the world agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

From The Wall Street Journal

The average global temperature last year was 1.55 degrees higher than the preindustrial temperatures, the first year in which annual temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal

At our current level of 1.3 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial levels, we see the crushing effects everywhere.

From Slate

Considering that spending on home construction and healthcare dwarf spending on building AI data centers, Mr. Potter could be right that soon “we may be able to create an era of human flourishing as different from today as today is from the preindustrial era.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The global scientific consensus is that most coral reefs would perish at warming of 1.5C above preindustrial levels -- a threshold just years away.

From Barron's