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The Haber-Bosch process uses tremendous heat and pressure to force nitrogen and hydrogen together. This creates a usable form of nitrogen. Large quantities of electricity are necessary to produce the heat and pressure, and large quantities of coal, oil, or gas are necessary to produce hydrogen. It relies on fossil fuel from beginning to end.

Understand the profound impact the Haber-Bosch process has the planet: two out of five people are only alive because of it. And, instead of running on the sun, modern agriculture runs on fossil fuel.

… There are now over 6 billion humans. Understand: billions of us are only here because of fossil fuel, because we figured out how to transform stored energy into edible energy. There is nowhere else to get that energy. As the natural gas and oil get more expensive, and the prohibitively expensive, there will be no way to keep that grain coming. And then? It doesn’t sound like a party I want to attend.

Lierre Keith, The Vegetarian Myth 

(Emphasis mine.)

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