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European deindustrialisation: innovation growth and jobs
What are we doing today and where do we want to be?
Dirk HudigFipra International
G7 employment shares by sector, c.1900-2009
These jobs don’t exist anymore…
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
Reg cttee quote
Worldwide cultivation areas with genetically modified plants in millions of hectares (1996 – 2009)
Online edition of The Telegraph, 11 September 2012
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