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by jl6 1880 days ago
What I find remarkable about that quote is that there were only three billion humans at the time. Apollo 11 wasn’t that long ago was it? And we’re already at a population more than twice that figure.
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Before covid, worldometers was known for tracking population data!

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#table-histor...

> Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Economic_and_env...