Thu, 06 Sep 2007

After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates

And there will be a price to be paid - not today, and probably not tomorrow, but at some point the disconnection will have become so top heavy it will no longer be sustainable. You can bank on it.

As reported widely in business and mainstream press, the ILO recently released world market employment statistics. Most outlets focused on US economic competitiveness vs. China and Europe. Few noticed the gem hidden away in the ILO report: for the first time since the invention of agriculture, farming is not the biggest sector of the global economy — services is.

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