World War II

“Farmers began using synthetic fertilizers after World War II, and the rate of increase just sort of skyrocketed after that, and that was sort of the beginning of the end of An equilibrium of the N-to-O budget, because once we started using much more synthetic …”

“If you look at when a lot of the big dams were constructed in the Pacific Northwest they coincided with completion in the early, like, late thirties, early forties, and that really let, you know, put us in a position actually entering World War II where we had…”

“Volkswagen's come out and said between now and 2030, they'll lay off 50,000 people. This is unprecedented. They're closing plants for the first time since World War II.”