1) No amount of acclimation can prevent getting sunburn if you spend 4hrs out in the sun in Saudi desert in the summer. I welcome you to prove me wrong g on this.
2) Attraction to the tanned skin is a distinctly western and quite modern ‘trend’. For a lot of Indians paler skin is more desirable and they sell skin whitening products. Until fairly recently in the west very pale skin was considered desirable.
Yes we burn from the prolonged exposure to heat, as anything does on the planet. That doesn’t mean the sun is bad.
So our bodies evolved to produce melanin over 1,000’s of years of living outdoors and our natural attraction to this is a modern trend? 🤔
“Yes we burn from the prolonged exposure to heat, as anything does on the planet. That doesn’t mean the sun is bad.”
But your assertion was that you won’t get burnt if you ‘acclimatise’.
“So our bodies evolved to produce melanin over 1,000’s of years of living outdoors and our natural attraction to this is a modern trend?”
Yes, the trend of what is considered ‘attractive’ is cultural not universal and changes over time. Try and find a painting from 18th century England where an ‘attractive’ person is depicted as being tanned. Being tanned meant you were poor and had to work outside for a living. People with ‘porcelain’ skin were considered to be beautiful.
Our skin cells don’t assimilate to social status. You’ll burn way less if you just get outdoors in the natural light year round. Why are you so adamant the sun causes skin cancer?
I never made that claim. All I said is that you cannot become immune to sunburn by spending more time outdoors, and, that what we consider attractive is cultural vs tanned skin being the universally accepted height of beauty.
We’ve seen humans fighting nature equates to disease but for some reason they look to nature as the cause instead of modern practices.
