Blindboy

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1,520 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

Blindboy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But it establishes a farming tradition that's based heavily on the export of cattle products.
And then a huge reliance there then on fucking fertilizer.
fertilizer that can be brought in from outside.
We used to get fertilizer from barge shit.
Up until about 1905 most fertilizer came from imported barge shit.
That was the source of nitrogen.
What stopped that was
I think a chemical process called the Haber process was invented in 1905, where modern chemistry figured out how to pull nitrogen from the air.
So now we had unlimited fertilizer.
But in order to execute the Haber process,
You need natural gas.
And that's where the Iran war right now, why that's impacting Irish farmers and fertiliser, not just fucking Irish farmers, farmers all around the world.
20% of the world's fertiliser
has to pass the straight of hormones right which is that chalk point there at iran that's been in the news all week or for the past three weeks so countries like so iran kuwait bahrain qatar uae oman
They have the natural gas, right?
For a lot of the world's fertilizer is made to do this harbor process.
They use natural gas to pull nitrogen from the air and make this into fertilizer.
This is what gives us, this is where the world has 8 billion people.
When the Haber process was discovered in 1905, humanity effectively achieved unlimited nitrogen.
There used to be a finite amount of nitrogen.
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