[audunw]

The upshot is it could accelerate the development of smaller local fertiliser factories running on solar power. There’s a few that have been built and demonstrated. If we start to build them in large numbers hopefully the costs will become reasonable.

That’s for nitrogen. Sulphur is another matter. I suppose in the long term we should just adapt food production to what can actually be sourced sustainably and locally.

[tekla]

Amazing, and people wonder why there is this immense backlash to environmentalists.

"Tons of people will die, but thats fine if it achieves my political/environmental goals"

[danudey]

7 million people per year die prematurely from air pollution alone. Are you suggesting we should just keep killing those people indefinitely instead?

Those 7 million lives were apparently never worth fixing things for; now maybe we can shift away from a fossil fuel-driven economy and cut back on a lot of that pollution, and maybe save a ton of lives in the long run.

Yes it is horrible that people are going to die from famines, no one is arguing against that, but maybe it will result in shifting our economy to something where people don't die of famines and also don't die of air pollution.

[fakedang]

The number of people who'd die from famines will be much much higher than 7 million per year.