The Greenwashing Glossary - Grains Devlin-Kuyuk

The use of chemical fertilizers this year will generate more greenhouse gas emissions than the total greenhouse gas emissions from all of the cars and trucks driven in the United States. nitrogen fertilizer alone accounts for one out of every 40 tons of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Devlin-Kuyuk: It takes tremendous amount of energy to produce these fertilizers. You can't really think of addressing or getting towards whatever they would zero by 2050 without a real change and a real transitional way from chemical fertilizers.