Posted on 09/17/2022 1:25:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
New research from University College London (now formally known as London’s Global University) warns that so-called “green energy” and the political push behind it is driving a shortage of sulfuric acid, a fertilizer component also found in lithium-ion batteries.
Published in Geographic Journal, the study reveals that upwards of 80 percent of the global supply of sulfur comes from the desulfurization of fossil fuels, which the climate brigade has pronounced as evil because they are supposedly heavy polluters.
The push to “decarbonize” the planet in order to cool it and prevent global warming and climate change is making sulfur much harder to come by. By 2040, the “greenification” of the planet will create a “shortfall” in the annual supply of sulfur ranging between 100 and 320 million tons.
Meanwhile, demand for sulfur appears to be increasing by the day, not only in agriculture but also within the electric vehicle (EV) industry, which requires sulfur to continue producing batteries, as well as in battery-powered electronics like computers and mobile phones. (Related: The United Nations is warning that global grain production could drop by 40 percent due to lack of fertilizer.)
“With increased farming and the world moving away from fossil fuels, geographers estimate global demand for sulfuric acid will rise to 246 to 400 million tons by 2040,” the paper reads. “However, depending on how quickly decarbonization happens, there may only be 100 to 320 million tons available for use.”
If fossil fuels go away like the greenies want them to, then we will also see global shortages of other fertilizers such as phosphorus, which is also used not only in agriculture but also in heavy industry to extract rare metals such as cobalt and nickel.
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They demand far fewer people. They don’t care how it is achieved.
If the greenies want fewer people, why don’t they do us a favor and OFF themselves?
Yes. Look at Sri Lanka.
Cow shit.
Oh fiddle, they’ll just go to their local Safeway.
“The push to “decarbonize” the planet in order to cool it and prevent global warming and climate change...”
From POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)
“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”
AND WE DID IT! (Snark)
I would like to see a good analysis of how many people are needed. Farming, mining, innovation, medical, education, drilling, manufacturing, security, ….
I bet it’s more than 500M. Oligarchs will rule for 6 months unless they have a robot army protecting them. Even then one good hack and they lose.
Mother Earth News is still being published, I believe. My mother had a subscription for many years, and I read quite a few issues. A lot of hippy-dippy stuff, as you’d expect, but also plenty of useful information. I may get a subscription myself now that I’ve been reminded of it.
Apocalypse by green energy.
>>I got an idea, let’s eliminate CO2.<<
Do not exhale and eliminate all forest fires.
No more fertilizer and no more plastic and not enough energy to power the factories or mine the minerals to replace all that plastic with metal and wood.
Mass starvation is part of “The Plan
I thought nuclear war was the plan. So many kook conspiracies, so little time...
In the US the oil refining process made it uneconomical to mine sulfur so all of our sulfur mines had gone out of business by 2000.
About thirty years ago the head of the chemistry department at the University of Calgary gave a presentation to a group of oil refining engineers.
He said that without the sulfur biproduct from the oil and gas industry used in fertilizers at that time the world would have been able to support only 2 billion people and not the then-population of seven or so billion.
Bingo
That’s their plan. Who will stop them?
Yep
Was there ever any doubt about who’s food gets cut off first?
I pity the fools. Naaah.
What do you think those Boston Dynamics robot "dogs" are for? Or drone swarm technology?
The green plan is really the build back better initiative where they put forward promote and execute technology they know doesn’t work in order to collapse the existing and start over where they are in complete control
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