re: #371 b_sharp

the only reason malthus’ prediction about population and food didn’t come true a long time ago is that in about 1910 fritz haber invented a method to capture nitrogen, leading to vast quantities of artificial fertilizer. without the haber process, we’d all starve, since we have long since outrun our ability to produce enough food using only natural fertilizers

so we damned well better figure out how to implement the haber process without requiring fossil fuels for it pdq