not adding the indirect costs o pollution and potential health problems to the prices of energy and manufactured goods.
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
As a society we pollute water by throwing trash into rivers, drilling for oil, and by mining for coal.
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Tobacco farming made the English colony of Virginia profitable
Ranchers made the western cattle industry profitable. They did this by selling and raising cattle for food and agricultural purposes.
It was very profitable. It allowed the southern colonies to hold profitable tobacco planting. Off this staple crop, they made a lot of money.
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Jamestown, Virginia was one of the most important colonial cities. The crop that made it most profitable was tobacco.
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