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If I remember correctly, Haber freed up a great deal of labor to be put into the Germany's military complex which empowered the country for WWI which embittered
by alexanderdmitri 7y ago
If I remember correctly, Haber freed up a great deal of labor to be put into the Germany's military complex which empowered the country for WWI which embittered the country leading to WWII.
I think nitrogen run off from soil has had quite an impact on changing water habitats as well, eutrophication and fish getting beat out by algae for limited oxygen resources.
- InitialLastName 7y agoOn a (slightly) smaller scale he also figured out how to weaponize chlorine gas and heavily evangelized its use (to the extent of bringing a tank to the front against orders and releasing it at Ypres).
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoAs father of chemical weapons he oversaw their use on the battlefield and gave the world Haber's rule for more effective mass gassing. Mustard gas too, and I think he even had some part in development of Zyklon B. He was completely unapologetic about it - he thought gas a better form of killing. Both his wife and daughter seem to borne some guilt from his poison gas work. His wife committed suicide a week after Ypres - though some have disputed if it was connected. His daughter's suicide was on learning her research into poison gas cures couldn't be continued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber's_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber's_rule
- InitialLastName 7y agoYeah that dude killed people and damaged the earth on a whole bunch of different scales.
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