🌊 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
- 1950The Green Revolution, Famine stays a normal feature of the late 20th century; populations in Asia and Latin America stall.
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