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mythrwylast Sunday at 2:30 PM1 replyview on HN

Borlaug was a very important figure in global food security but he was a plant breeder, not the guy(s) who figured out how to fix nitrogen from the air into fertilizer. Nitrogen people were Haber and Bosch.

Millions of probably do owe their very existence to these men though, agree with that.

However part of me (maybe a slightly misanthropic part?) wonders if it might be a bit like feeding stray cats, and now we have a huge herd of cats that are rapidly outstripping the ultimate carrying capacity of their environment and it doesn't end well. But since I'm one of the cats, I say we just go with it and see what happens.


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motoboilast Sunday at 4:23 PM

Im sorry. That was supposed to be a list but the formatter ate the lines.

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