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Jad Abumrad

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To feed about 30 million people.

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However, that leaves behind 20 million Germans.

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You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry?

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That's what we're heading towards.

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I mean, you have to remember, during the Crimean War in the 1850s, Europe starves.

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So around the turn of the century, for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge.

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He wants to feed.

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He wants to feed Germany.

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And actually, this wasn't just a German thing.

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A lot of people were beginning to worry that with about a billion and a half people on the planet at that point, that maybe we were maxing out.

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that the Earth couldn't support this many people.

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And everyone thought, well, we know the solution.

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Yeah, we just need a whole lot more of one simple element.

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Nitrogen.

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Nitrogen.

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Nitrogen.

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Nitrogen.

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They needed more.

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Nitrogen.

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Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins.