Canary Media’s Eating the Earth column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in.

Almost everything about synthetic fertilizer sucks.

It sucks for the climate, generating 2.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, more than global aviation. It sucks for the environment, creating a dead zone the size of Connecticut in the Gulf of Mexico while choking the Great Lakes with algal blooms. And it sucks for farmers, because it’s an expensive commodity controlled by petro-giants like Koch Industries and petro-states like Russia — and about half its nitrogen gets wasted.

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[CANARY MEDIA, 2023.8.29, https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/food-and-farms/chemical-fertilizer-is-a-climate-disaster-can-high-tech-biology-fix-it]