Excessive use of phosphorus is depleting the resources needed for global food production and exacerbating the climate crisis. Guard Professor of Lancaster University. Phil Haygarth and Professor of the University of Bristol. With reference to Penny Jones.
According to the publication, the irrational use of phosphorus can lead to a critical shortage of fertilizers, which will disrupt food production. In addition, phosphate fertilizers washed out of fields, entering water bodies, create “dead zones” where marine life is dying, causing copious algal blooms. In addition, the Guardian writes that excessive use of phosphorus is exacerbating global warming and the climate crisis by increasing methane emissions.
“We really need to pull ourselves together and be much smarter about how we use phosphorus. If we don’t do that, we’re in for a disaster we call phosphoeddon,” said Professor Haygarth.
About 50 million tons of phosphate fertilizers are sold annually in the world. Significant phosphorus reserves have been found in only a few countries, and the largest phosphorus deposits are in Morocco, Western Sahara, China and Algeria.
Previously reportedThat the UN said Russian fertilizers helped solve the food crisis.