The US was allowed to industrialize at a time when we didn't know these things would hurt the Earth, but we know now. |
First among these is agriculture's role in food security: if workers in cities do not have enough to eat, a country cannot industrialize. |
For countries that have failed to industrialize, task-based production and trade are a potential lifeline. |
When the oil fields were developed in the early 1960s, the Daqing workers were held up as heroes in China's drive to industrialize. |
The fact is that American agriculture was supposed to industrialize and mechanize its crop-gathering and harvesting 35 years ago. |
No other country would industrialize to the same extent before the 1870s, giving Britain a near-monopoly on the production of manufactured goods. |