Interesting - those fertilizers also caused the demographic explosion that let Germany leapfrog France in terms of population (from parity to a 60/40 advantage)

Interesting - those fertilizers also caused the demographic explosion that let Germany leapfrog France in terms of population (from parity to a 60/40 advantage). They also drew the war to an end. Germany didn't produce enough fertilizer and was dependent on imports, which England successfully reduced to a crawl via blockade. A prolonged inability to feed its citizens broke the will of the nation in a way that feeding men into machine guns never quite managed to do.