"I hasten to add that the 50 percent of humanity dependent on ammonia is not an immutable approximation. Given prevailing diets and farming practices, synthetic nitrogen feeds half of humanity—or, everything else being equal, **half of the world’s population could not be sustained without synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers**." ([Location 1685](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=1685)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[food-production]], [[ammonia]], [[nitrogen]], [[nitrogenous-fertilisers]], [[demographics]] **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]