The artificial fertiliser market is worth about $400 billion dollars. Those involved do not want to see that reduced!<\/p>\n
Over 50% of that market is production of 200 million tonnes of nitrogenous fertiliser each year.\u00a0 That fertilizer is required to feed our over-populated planet. Half the world\u2019s population relies on artificial fertiliser.<\/p>\n
8 billion people on the planet, half needing that fertiliser. That is about 50 kilos each or 1 kilogramme of fertiliser per person per week.<\/p>\n
Each additional person increases the demand. When we have gone from 8 billion to 12 billion people, the fertiliser need will have doubled. The market will have doubled too. Ker-ching!<\/p>\n
(Oh, heck. We\u2019re at 8.1 billion people already. I thought we only just heard it was 8.0 billion.)<\/p>\n
Production of nitrogenous fertiliser is energy intensive. It is responsible for 2.1% of greenhouse gas emissions. A 50% increase in the population will double those emissions.<\/p>\n
To feed our over-sized population, we are using artificial nitrogenous fertiliser, which is a carbon-industry product.<\/p>\n
For our population to keep growing we must increase our CO\u2082 production.<\/p>\n
This is why some people keep saying \u201cWE NEED MORE PEOPLE TO, umm, thinks, there must be something, oh yeah, LOOK AFTER YOU WHEN YOU ARE OLD!!!!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n The carbon industry would love there to be more people on the planet, because without the carbon-based fuels, they would starve to death. Ker-ching!<\/p>\n Eat up your petroleum (and coal and gas) products people! Om, nom, nom!<\/p>\n This is going to get very ugly within a couple of decades.\u00a0 Seriously, we are so doomed unless we do something about climate change and<\/strong> our increasing overpopulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The artificial fertiliser market is worth about $400 billion dollars. Those involved do not want to see that reduced! Over 50% of that market is production of 200 million tonnes of nitrogenous fertiliser each year.\u00a0 That fertilizer is required to … Continue reading