People are exhausted from being told/shown the thing they thought was special or unique or could make them relevant, is another mechanical puzzle that can be solved without joy.
I don’t see that doing anything but intensifying in the short term
This is surprisingly apt to me. Fertilizer is apparently one of the fundamental geopolitical dependencies on capital and access to petrochemicals. Solving fertilizer would unlock a huge amount of human potential in the Global South.
I don’t see that doing anything but intensifying in the short term