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Re:Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop... by jsilence on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:47AM (#29130618)
Wondering where we would stand if we had dumped all the funding and subsidies that went into nuclear fission and fusion research and into coal subsidies into solar panels.

Guessing dependency on oil and gas would be much much lower which also frees up a large chunk of the military budget.

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Re:Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop... by ZeroGravitas on Saturday November 06, 2021 @11:20AM (#29130950)
Democratization of resources also reduces the chance of war.

A fair amount the second world war can be told purely in attempts to control access to fuel:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II

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