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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

On the plus side, one of his inventions killed Thomas Midgley Jr., arguably the most environmentally destructive chemical engineer in history

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Name me another chemical engineer that could be argued did more harm. I don't think all of Monsanto with agent orange and Roundup has done more than the TEL and CFC fuckup.

    Where's he buried? How long is the line to piss on his headstone?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Fritz Haber invented nitrogrn fixing fertilizers and is responsible for the massive baby boom across the globe after ww2 because so much more food could now be grown.

    Except now there are 8b+ people on an increasingly warming and polluted planet and these fertilizers (alongside modern farming techniques and climate collapse, both of which came about because of this baby boom...) have all but destroyed the planets' arable land.

    The UN Food and Agriculture Organization is warning that 90% of the earth's top soil will be depleted by 2050.

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