it's longer than that, you're really talking about the private ownership of land. the major barrier to land occupation since then has been ownership rather than space.
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Originally posted by C0ckney View Postit's longer than that, you're really talking about the private ownership of land. the major barrier to land occupation since then has been ownership rather than space.Indifference is Bliss
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Originally posted by regexcellent View PostEven after intensive agriculture began, the vast majority of people were farmers until relatively recently.
Do you have any idea of the numbers of people involved in ensuring that, say, a city such as late Victorian London didn't simply just drown in its own waste products ?Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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Originally posted by molly bloom View PostBecause gold, coal and timber and buildings are all acquired through agriculture. And ships. And iron and nails, and clothing and pottery and haircuts and bread and pasta and ....
Do you have any idea of the numbers of people involved in ensuring that, say, a city such as late Victorian London didn't simply just drown in its own waste products ?
Unless you actually disagree with the point that lots of people used to be farmers, and now not very many people are farmers, don't argue with it.
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Originally posted by N35t0r View PostEarlier than 200-300 years ago, there were still vast stretches of empty/unclaimed land.
Medieval England was full of unemployed vagabonds.In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.
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It's the Dutch meat exports that do it (2nd largest exporters in the world after the U.S.).
But going by dollar value. I suspect that reg's figure could be correct for net exports. The EU imports about as much as it exports.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.
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