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You’re not wrong, but this actually illustrates why we need to establish industry to counteract this problem. What you’re describing will always be true if we d
by steve_adams_86 6y ago
You’re not wrong, but this actually illustrates why we need to establish industry to counteract this problem. What you’re describing will always be true if we don’t have the initiative to correct it.
This stuff seriously concerns me because apart from natural resources, we have very little to leverage. I worry for my kids and their kids. Canada is in a very precarious economic and political position from my perspective.
- bushbaba 6y agoCanada has lots and lots of fresh water. And global warming will open lots of farm land. Could easily see Canada become the agricultural leader of North America.
- vkou 6y ago> Could easily see Canada become the agricultural leader of North America. The agricultural leaders of <anything> are countries that are nearly universally dirt-poor.
- kenhwang 6y agoThen there's California, arguably North America's current agricultural leader.
- vkou 6y agoCalifornia isn't rich because of agriculture. It's a rich state that happens to do some agriculture.
- systemBuilder 6y agoIllinois is 100% agriculture. All the tech from Schaumburg and Naperville (W. Chicago) has been hollowed out. It's still relatively rich as a state ... You are forgetting that until recently in Brazil the USA had double the agricultural productivity of any place else on Earth...
- refurb 6y agoChicago GDP = $619B IL GDP = $897B Agriculture is a small fraction of what IL produces.
- eru 6y agoThe Dutch disagree. (Not just now, but also historically.)
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoExcept that the Netherlands aren't rich because of their agriculture. They're rich and happend to be good at agriculture on the side as an added bonus.
- eru 6y agoSounds like we are moving the goalposts now? In any case, have a look at https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-dutch-economy-in-the-golden-age-16th-17th-centuries/ https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-dutch-economy-in-the-golden-... Agriculture has been important for the Dutch for a long, long time. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio... which arguably allowed Britain to become the wealthiest place on the planet for a while.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoOk, my mistake.
- foobiekr 6y agoDid you know that the northeast of the United States was once quite agriculturally productive? The current situation is the result of economics and will benefit long before Canada does and to a much greater extent.
- eru 6y ago> You’re not wrong, but this actually illustrates why we need to establish industry to counteract this problem. Who is we?
- steve_adams_86 6y agoSorry - we is Canada in this case. I didn’t make that clear.