We owe our lives to artificial fertiliser

Microbiologist Hidde Boersma explains why, despite the drawbacks, artificial fertiliser is so important for sustaining human life.
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[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice artificial fertilizer.

[@gauvaindf]

Even if what you say is true you have oversimplified, the problem is not only the overuse of fertilizer.
Besides there are a lot of other problems with intensive agriculture, floods, the freatic water tables that no longer fill up, because the water no longer infiltrates, the cut trees make that the rain no longer falls where it fell naturally before, and many other problems that must be solved with unnatural methods and which require even more energy...
There is a lot of food waste in this method of production, proof that we have room.
Besides we no longer lack natural fertilizer with the overproduction of meat... we have only decided that it was less complicated to produce energy with this new surplus.
a lot of surface is devoted to biofuel and the worst is that it has a carbon footprint greater than that which comes out of the ground...
We need huge surfaces to produce food for our livestock, while we do not need as much meat, so yet another way to reduce the cultivated surface.
Meat produces 80% less protein than beans for the same agricultural surface.
We spend our time solving problems that we have just created...
It is possible to solve a lot of societal problems by reducing this practice as much as possible, both in rich and poor countries.