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In reply to the discussion: New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]Production within an economy can be divided into three main stages: primary, secondary and tertiary.
Primary production
Primary production involves the extraction of raw materials (e.g. coal, iron, agricultural commodities). Raw materials can be:
Extracted e.g. coal, iron ore, oil, gas and stone
Harvested / collected e.g. fish
Grown e.g. timber, cereal crops
There is little value added in primary production. The aim is usually to produce the highest quantity at lowest cost to a satisfactory standard.
Secondary production
Secondary production involves transforming raw materials into goods. There are two main kinds of goods:
Consumer goods e.g. washing machines, DVD players. As the name implies, these are used by consumers
Industrial / capital goods e.g. plant and machinery, complex information systems. Industrial and capital goods are used by businesses themselves during the production process.
In the secondary production sector, value is added to the raw material inputs. For example, foodstuffs are transformed into ready meals for sale in supermarkets; metals, fabrics, and plastics are transformed into motor vehicles.
There are many different industry sectors in secondary production. For example:
Construction
Electronic instruments
Pharmaceuticals (drugs)
House-building
Tertiary production
Tertiary production is associated with the provision of services (an intangible product). As with the secondary sector, there are many tertiary production markets. Good examples include:
Hotels
Private healthcare and education
Accountants
Tourism
Primary production
Primary production involves the extraction of raw materials (e.g. coal, iron, agricultural commodities). Raw materials can be:
Extracted e.g. coal, iron ore, oil, gas and stone
Harvested / collected e.g. fish
Grown e.g. timber, cereal crops
There is little value added in primary production. The aim is usually to produce the highest quantity at lowest cost to a satisfactory standard.
Secondary production
Secondary production involves transforming raw materials into goods. There are two main kinds of goods:
Consumer goods e.g. washing machines, DVD players. As the name implies, these are used by consumers
Industrial / capital goods e.g. plant and machinery, complex information systems. Industrial and capital goods are used by businesses themselves during the production process.
In the secondary production sector, value is added to the raw material inputs. For example, foodstuffs are transformed into ready meals for sale in supermarkets; metals, fabrics, and plastics are transformed into motor vehicles.
There are many different industry sectors in secondary production. For example:
Construction
Electronic instruments
Pharmaceuticals (drugs)
House-building
Tertiary production
Tertiary production is associated with the provision of services (an intangible product). As with the secondary sector, there are many tertiary production markets. Good examples include:
Hotels
Private healthcare and education
Accountants
Tourism
http://www.tutor2u.net/business/gcse/production_stages.htm
Do you agree that higher levels of production are dependent from lower levels of production, but lower levels of production are not dependent from higher levels?
If you do, we have established enough common ground to proceed to next point. Which is, when higher level of production destroys lower level of production (e.g. mining uranium and other raw materials for building and using nuclear plant and destroying primary production capacity while doing so) it is behaving self-destructively. Like cancer that devours the host organism it depends from.
Next point, if we are still on same page, is open question: how to organize our society and ways of life to live sustainably instead of self-destructively, if that is what we want?
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New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]
Turborama
Sep 2012
OP
An example of a technology that has been relegated to being a historical artifact
Turborama
Sep 2012
#8
Right, so essentially: "I throw ad hominem attacks at writers who's work I don't read"
Turborama
Oct 2012
#16
LOL! So, if 3 people agree with Donald Trump that makes him correct about the President's BC?
Turborama
Oct 2012
#46
I thought the same thing when I read it -- superior performance undercut by cheaper and crappier
Brickbat
Oct 2012
#17
K&R But that was a very bad analogy. The leader of a political party really needs to be more
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2012
#3