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An in depth thesis about Birdshit

The Blindboy Podcast

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The Industrial Revolution and the End of Bird Shit

The world runs out of bird shit in the 1800s because Europe has colonized every single bird shit island. The next best source of nitrogen is bonds so they dug up battlegrounds and burnt them down to make nitrogen for fertilizer. Now we have a population of 1.6 billion people who need food but don't have any fertilizer. So what happens when you have a limited resource? wars. just like the Middle East past 100 years all that horrible debt that we've seen that's all because of oil.

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