This is entitled "Industrial Literacy" but the first paragraph is filled with inaccurate statements with no references"=. "That if synthetic fertilizer was sud

This is entitled "Industrial Literacy" but the first paragraph is filled with inaccurate statements with no references"=. "That if synthetic fertilizer was suddenly lost, a mass famine would ensue and billions would starve" No source and arguably incorrect. First of all we have natural fertilizer, it doesn't just magically disappear from the earth in the already far-fetched scenario of synthetic fertilizers magically disappearing: https://www.epa.gov/agriculture/agriculture-nutrient-management-and-fertilizer https://www.epa.gov/agriculture/agriculture-nutrient-managem... Second, in the U.S. synthetic fertilizer use is heavily concentrated in corn and soybeans which together make up the vast majority of the use: https://cfpub.epa.gov/roe/indicator.cfm?i=55 https://cfpub.epa.gov/roe/indicator.cfm?i=55 Third, many farmers across the world still don't use synthetic fertilizer. Less than half of the world population is fed by synthetic fertilizers: https://ourworldindata.org/fertilizers#how-many-people-does-synthetic-fertilizer-feed https://ourworldindata.org/fertilizers#how-many-people-does-... Fourth, the world produces far more food than is required to sustain sustenance for everyone on Earth: https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply What will actually happen in the magic event of synthetic fertilizer disappearing is unknowable, but what is much more likely than "billions would starve" is _food prices will increase drastically. In the poorest economies, the poorest farmers are already growing without synthetic fertilizer, so their lives may vary well improve because food prices will go up. However, non-farmer impoverished people would see undernourishment because they would not be able to afford the increased prices. I implore the author if promoting literacy, to actually read some books on this matter and cite sources. I suggest "The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming."