u/No-Product-9793

While I understand that wet bulb events are getting more common and dangerous today due to climate change, they can't be a new thing since the invention of AC right? Hot and humid places have always existed, and people lived there. How did the people who lived in those areas not die during humid heat waves? Especially people who often had no choice but to work outside? How do you keep your animals from dying? Most information I've found mostly focuses on the wealthy who could afford to slow down (and left convenient information in letters and diaries about how they cooled off), but how would the average farmer or hunter survive?