Oh believe me, we find plenty of ways to fuck things up in the absence of magic.

OK let me think. Well, I can work backward; big differences I noticed when I came here. The first one is a lot fewer machines. We built machines to do a lot of things back. Transportation, chores, health care, keeping places warm or cool. It means my world is a lot noisier than this one. And the air and water is less clean, too. The stuff we use to power a lot of those machines makes some pretty nasty by-products, but it's slow to transition to better, new options because a lot of rich people are still getting rich selling the old, dirty option.