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European deindustrialisation: innovation growth and jobs. What are we doing today and where do we want to be?. Dirk Hudig Fipra International. G7 employment shares by sector, c.1900-2009. These jobs don’t exist anymore…. A horse-drawn tram.
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European deindustrialisation: innovation growth and jobs What are we doing today and where do we want to be? Dirk Hudig Fipra International
A horse-drawn tram The average horse would produce 14kg of manure per day, evidence of which can be seen above
Thomas Malthus: “The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.” An essay on the Principle of Population, 1798
Growth in wheat yields per hectare Area of land harvested
Francis Crick and James Watson: discovered ‘the secret of life’ 1953 The double helix
Worldwide cultivation areas with genetically modified plants in millions of hectares (1996 – 2009)