Holland is the world’s #2 agricultural exporter, but that may not last for long, because leftists have been shutting down farms as part of the environmentalist war on nitrogen, which comprises 78% of the air we breathe but like its fellow plant nutrient carbon dioxide is a pollutant according to woke ideology. However, nitrogen isn’t always bad.

From the enviromoonbat site The Cool Down:

A new study published in Nature Communications found that great whales — including humpbacks, grays, and right whales — are hauling thousands of tons of nitrogen from polar feeding zones to tropical waters every year, reported Popular Science. Along the way, they’re quietly fertilizing coral reefs and coastal ecosystems that would otherwise run low on essential nutrients. …

The research team estimates they release over 4,000 tons of nitrogen annually, mostly in the form of urea-rich urine. …

All of that liquid gold ends up in the ocean, where it fuels the growth of algae, plankton, and coral, especially in places that struggle with nutrient shortages.

Humpbacks migrating from Antarctica to Costa Rica leak urea the entire way, connecting ecosystems thousands of miles apart.

There would be even more liquid gold, if not for the cancer known as humanity:

Before commercial whaling slashed global populations, these cross-hemisphere nutrient flows may have been up to three times greater.

It all depends on the context. Nitrogen in the context of feeding human beings is bad. Nitrogen in the context of whales peeing in the pool is good.

On a tip from Mike B.

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