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Bird droppings were a foundation of modern agriculture and American empire
- Bird droppings were a foundation of modern agriculture and the American empire.
- The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for about one-third of the world's fertilizer, highlights the strategic importance of access to crop nutrients similar to oil in the 21st century.
- An environmental historian studies how fertilizer has transformed the modern world.
- The history of fertilizer reveals hidden costs of modern food production, including brutal worker treatment and the expansion of imperial power.
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Bird droppings were a foundation of modern agriculture and American empire
Long before synthetic fertilizers, the global guano trade reshaped farming, fueled American expansion and exposed the hidden human costs of feeding the modern world.
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Fowl droppings have been a basis of contemporary agriculture and American empire
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, by which more or less one-third of the sector’s fertilizer typically passes, has made transparent that get entry to to vitamins for plants stays as strategically vital within the twenty first century as get entry to to grease. As an environmental historian, I learn about how fertilizer reworked the trendy global. That historical past is set greater than medical innovation or agricultural development. It addit…
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