[griswold3]

mining for phosphate causes selenium poisoning to livestock.

[Jeremiah Jr]

Who you gonna call?

Jordan Phosphate Mines Company

PROFILE

JPMC was established as a private company on March 1949 to exploit phosphate deposits in Jordan. It was registered as a public shareholding company in 1953 with an initial share capital of JD 250,000 and now operates under Law No. 22 of 1997. JPMC currently operates three mines in Jordan producing phosphate rock, with a fourth mine at Al-Ruseifa having ceased production in 1985, and a downstream fertilizer and chemicals plant at Aqaba in the south of Jordan producing phosphoric acid, diammonium phosphate ("DAP"), sulphuric acid and Aluminum fluoride.

http://www.jordanphosphate.com/

How convenient!

[RoadKingSE]

One word. Milorganite.

[Jeff Chandler]

Holy bat poop! Were guano run out of phosphate.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

The exponential growth in global food production

Exponential? Really?

I told you a million times -- don't exaggerate!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Growth in demand for food in China and India, coupled with increased switching of food crops to biofuels in the US, have increased the demand for fertilisers, raising the world price fourfold in the past year.

Algore will be the death of us yet.

[Joe Boucher]

Here in Florida we face the same problems with mining of phosphate that we do drilling for oil.
There is enough phosphate in Bartow that they could supply as much as is needed BUT the tree huggers won’t let it happen.
You have to mine it as a pit and they won’t let that happen just like they won’t let us drill for oil in the gulf or atlantic. So what are ya going to do?

[reformedliberal]

Fish bone meal.

[FoxInSocks]

HPO₄^2-_(aq)+ H₂O_(l) ⇌ H₃O⁺_(aq) + PO₄^3-_(aq)

[Ole Okie]

"Quite simply, without phosphorus we cannot produce food," says Dana Cordell of the Institute of Sustainable Futures, based in Sydney.

We're all gonna die!!

Again.

Has Chicken Little been informed of this development?

[webheart]

Maybe they will stop using phosphoric acid in soft drinks, and go back to citric acid. Tastes better, IMO.

[Bernard Marx]

researchers are warning that the world could face dwindling supplies of phosphate by 2040 unless steps are taken to use it more efficiently and recover it from human waste

It makes sense to utilize human waste if it can be done cost-effectively. It would solve 2 problems at once. But if I read this pdf report correctly there doesn't appear to be any real shortage of phosphate-bearing rock. Increased prices will spur more exploration and make new recovery methods more affordable.

Phosphate Rock

[stinkerpot65]

"There is no global organisation looking at global trends in phosphorus and how we're going to ensure we'll have phosphorus production into the future," she said.

Yeah there is. It's called a market economy. But, college professors don't believe in markets. They believe in the U.N., and Marxism.

Why is why they are constantly howling about a "global crisis" of some sort.

[gura]

Just remember folks: without constant crisis there is no need for control.

[piasa]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3277628/posts?page=1

Hillary Clinton donor Moroccan phosphate king