Tag: fertilizer
Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron
The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals?
Stifling Food Production to “Save the Planet”
After Sri Lanka’s government restricted non-organic fertilizer use, the economy and government collapsed.
Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus
To complete the argument for prior fitness of the elements for our Privileged Species, we must deal with the availability of another essential element.
Turning Our Dead into Fertilizer
These methods send a powerful symbolic statement that we are essentially nothing more than carbon atoms gathered temporarily in a rational and animated form.