If you’re looking for someone to blame for today’s era of plenty, look to a couple of German scientists who lived a century ago. They understood that the problem was not a lack of food per se, but a lack of fertilizer – then they figured out how to make endless amounts of fertilizer.
你没有听错。如果你想要为今天物质丰裕的时代寻找责任人，那么你应当怪罪生活在一百年前的几位德国科学家。他们认为问题不在于粮食短缺本身，而在于化肥数量不足——接着他们就发明了一种方法，生产出无穷无尽的化肥。