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🌊 Ripple · counterfactual

What if the Haber–Bosch process had gone differently?

1909 · rhineland

Nitrogen is pulled from the air to make fertiliser at industrial scale.

If it had gone differently: Farm yields hit a hard ceiling set by manure and guano; the planet feeds maybe half as many people.

What it set up
  1. 1950The Green Revolution, Famine stays a normal feature of the late 20th century; populations in Asia and Latin America stall.

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