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I very much doubt "most of us" - the numbers I've seen give me the impression that direct agricultural employment will rise significantly, but hardly far enough to be "most" of us. And that's before people set their minds to the problems of automation in the context of (broadly) organic production. Just because current machinery is optimized for huge monocultures doesn't mean that future machines have to be.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Dec 9th, 2009 at 05:38:08 AM EST
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Not so much in direct food production, but add in ancilliary support and that's a good percentage of the current manual labour/ low skilled office work force accounted for.

Personally I still think there's a lot of mileage in the Stranded Wind initiative, but it requires significat backing at governmental level to become a way out of this mess. I fear it's an idea which won't develop the backing in time to be a significant contributor.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 9th, 2009 at 05:49:29 AM EST
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