We, of course, know as we read the prelude to this poem that this is a work consumed with questions of temporal disjunction, with that problem of temporal discontinuity.
So we are totally consumed with making this work, under the premise that now is the time to act and if we do act now we can achieve our renewable energy portfolio goals in an economically viable way.
Likewise, fewer workers were employed in the parts of the economy that produced goods for sale abroad, but just as many more found work making things that were consumed within the country's borders.