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Besides the sediment, there are dissolved molecules, nitrogen and phosphorus.
The nitrogen and the phosphorus stimulate the growth of microscopic plants called phytoplankton.
The problem is that there's just too much nitrogen and phosphorus right now, too much phytoplankton falling to the bottom and decomposed by bacteria that use up the oxygen.
The nitrogen that is put in fertilizers and the phosphorus goes on the land and drains off into the Mississippi River and ends up in the Gulf of Mexico.
And phosphorus has doubled.
We've doubled the flows of nitrogen and phosphorus around the world simply by using fertilizers, causing huge problems of water quality from rivers, lakes, and even oceans, and it's also the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss.
Fertilizers have more than doubled the phosphorus and nitrogen in the environment.
I left out a lot today: phosphorus and sulfur and the other atoms, and why they all bond the way they do, and symmetry and non-bonding electrons, and atoms that are charged, and reactions and their mechanisms, and it goes on and on and on, and synthesis takes a long time to learn.
Instead, I'll be talking about the main cause at the root of this issue, which I will be referring to as the phosphorus crisis.
Why have I chosen to talk to you about the phosphorus crisis today?
Several of these nutrients are essential chemical elements: phosphorus, nitrogen and calcium.
Today I'll be focusing on a major problem that is linked to phosphorus.
Why phosphorus in particular?
I’d like everyone to understand precisely what the phosphorus issue is.
And more importantly still, phosphorus is a key component of DNA, something everyone is familiar with, and which is shown in this image.
It is extremely important, and once again, phosphorus is a key player.
Now, where do we find this phosphorus?
As I explained earlier, plants extract phosphorus from the soil, through water.
And the question is a simple one: Do we have enough phosphorus to feed our future generations?
So, in order to understand these issues, where do we find our phosphorus?
But first, let’s just suppose that we are using 100 percent of a given dose of phosphorus.
It goes into the soil, ending its journey in the lakes, resulting in lakes with extra phosphorus, which leads to the blue algae problem.
A hundred percent of the phosphorus is used, but only 15 percent goes to the plant.
Eighty percent of each dose of phosphorus is lost.
Modern agriculture depends on phosphorus.
Now, where will we get this phosphorus from?
This is the cover of an extraordinary article published in Nature in 2009, which really launched the discussion about the phosphorus crisis.
And everyone agrees: Politicians and scientists are in agreement that we are headed for a phosphorus crisis.
So, we get phosphorus from mines.
And if I make a comparison with oil, there’s an oil crisis, we talk about it, we talk about global warming, yet we never mention the phosphorus crisis.
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