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See Vaclav Smil's recent articles on the innovation of the 1880s.

Paraphrasing Vaclav Smil's arguments: Naturally-produced fertilizers can provide approximately 200 kg.

I think that The Power of the Powerless, essay written about this topic in 1978 by Vaclav Havel, might be interesting even these days.

The older I get the more I admire people like Vaclav Havel and others who would rather spend years in jail instead of just 'sucking it up'...

Given that, e.g., Vaclav Havel has successfully stood up against true totalitarianism with not much more than a typewriter, I think there's both a chance and a responsibility to turn this trend back.

[2] Vaclav Smil has written extensively on energy transitions, and the quantitative point is incontrovertible: the jump from chemical to nuclear energy release is on the order of a million-fold, comparable in magnitude to the jump from metabolic to combustion energy.

Reminds me of the classic by the great Vaclav Havel, "The Poet Writes the World's Shortest Love Poem": YOU!

The culture of comfortableness is exactly what Vaclav Havel described in "The Power of the Powerless" Comfortableness is a misnomer.

If you want to follow Vaclav Havel's "Living in truth", then I commend you for it.

You may like "Creating the 20th Century" by Vaclav Smil.

Vaclav Smil is a good source or for a less dense version Nate Hagens has podcasts about it.

Vaclav Smil has written two of these, Energy and Civilization (2017) and Energy in World History (1994).

Vaclav Havel calls this 'The Power of the Powerless.' One spark, one massive fire.