Haber-Bosch Process Analysis

         According to Head Count by Elizabeth Kolbert "Haber had, it was said, figured out how to turn air into bread." This resonated to me as a very positive outlook on the Haber-Bosch Process, that is why I believe the Haber-Bosch Process has a positive impact on the human civilization. I believe without this process agriculture (which today produces 90% of the worlds food) would be drastically decreased if the Haber-Bosch Process was not around, and this is just the beginning. Along with agriculture the document states that in just 85 years the worlds population will grow to just over 11 billion people, without that 90% of agricultural benefit one can only assume how many people would die each day due to starvation and/or malnourishment. Even today where there is still all this food from the Haber-Bosch Process over 21,000 people die each day due to starvation, imagine what would happen if there were 11 billion people and no food to give out, the calculations would be about 1 million people a day. In order to feed this gigantic number of people we would need to produce double the amount we do now and without the H.B.P this would not even be conceivably possible. According to the reading "Germans were able to keep the bombs dropping even after their supplies of saltpeter had run low. (According to some historians, without the process the Second Reich would have collapsed as much as two years sooner.)" I'm not saying that this was a positive impact on society but I am saying if the Germans could continue to drop bombs even after they ran out of saltpeter think of the possibilities of this process, more power for the powerless, more food for the hungry, even more money for the poor. This is why I think the Haber-Bosch Process has a positive impact on the human civilization.