preindustrial

British  

/ ˌpriːɪnˈdʌstrɪəl /

adjective

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

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Example Sentences

Maybe we couldn’t stop global temperatures from reaching 1.5º above preindustrial levels, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying even harder.

From Salon

Signatories to the Paris Agreement in 2015 aspired to hold the rise in temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

From The Wall Street Journal

These analyses typically run climate models simulating the world as it is today, with elevated sea-surface temperatures, and compare them with a hypothetical preindustrial world with cooler oceans.

From The Wall Street Journal

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