MEXICO: According to a research, extra use of Phosphorous and Nitrogen fertilizer put bad affects on planet.
Professor Stephen Carpenter, director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has warned that the reckless use of artificial fertilizers like phosphorus and nitrogen could destroy Earth in future.
Carpenter said, “We’re running up to and beyond the biophysical boundaries that enable human civilization as we know it to exist. Everything that is important to civilization. The development of agriculture, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and the Industrial Revolution were some of the best thing that happened to our world.”
The researchers from the University of Wisconsin conducted a study in which they studied the impact of global warming. They also studied the rise of sea levels, which is caused by the rapid melting of ice due to global warming. Additionally they combined all these factors to see how the biodiversity of the planet is steadily getting destroyed.
“We’ve (people) changed nitrogen and phosphorus cycles vastly more than any other element. (The increase) is on the order of 200 to 300 percent. In contrast, carbon has only been increased 10 to 20 percent and look at all the uproar that has caused in the climate,” Carpenter noted.
Certain lands, like the farming lands in Africa, need nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizers to get a better yield. However, the researchers stated that American farmers are also using nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizers, despite the soil in the U.S. being already rich in essential nutrients that are beneficial for huge harvest. Those natural nutrients are adequately high in nitrogen and phosphorous. This is drastically affecting the quality of land and destroying the natural conditions.
“It might be possible for human civilization to live outside Holocene conditions, but it’s never been tried before. We know civilization can make it in Holocene conditions, so it seems wise to try to maintain them,” added Carpenter.
