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The Haber–Bosch process is the most important chemical discovery of the twentieth century. By doubling the amount of disposable nitrogen, it provoked the demographic explosion that took the human population from 1.6 to 7 billion in fewer than one hundred years. Today, nearly fifty per cent of the nitrogen atoms in our bodies are artificially created, and more than half the world population depends on foodstuffs fertilized thanks to Haber’s invention.
Don’t they understand that we are rising up only to fall?”
“We have reached the highest point of civilization. All that is left for us is to decay and fall.”
Only when complementary views of the same reality combine are we capable of achieving fuller access to the knowledge of things.
Le rêveur n’est autre que Dieu.
Impotent, I suffered as I saw how my consciousness of time was destroyed, my resolve, my sense of duty and proportion! And to whom do we owe this magnificent inferno if not to you, to people like you? Tell me, Professor, when did all this madness begin? When did we cease to understand the world?”
