18 MAR 2012 by ideonexus

 Call for Nitrogen Fixation

England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmo...
  1  notes

Crookes predicts the failure of farming to support a growing population and calls on chemists to work on improving production.