"Nitrogen pollution is the most influential
global driver of human-made biodiversity decline after habitat destruction and the emission of greenhouse gases."
You really should not post clickbait headlines to back up yoour pre-concieved political bias without understanding organic chemistry, or even actually reading and comprehending what is being said.
You conflate
inert elemental nitrogen that makes up 78% of our homogenous atmospheric gases with organic nitrogen compounds that may or not be active.
Nitrogen, in it's active forms like fertilizers causes things like algal blooms and resultant watershed pollution, fish kills etc. That is general pollution.
Nitrogen can be made into nitroglycerin so you could say nitrogen is causing wars.
Nitrogen oxides are indeed a more potent greenhouse gas but are a worse general pollutant.
Anyways, the point is that we, as humanity, need to stop increasingly polluting the water and air we exist on. You reduce it to an economic, political tribal issue and dismiss the cumulative effects because you can't see then, nor do you really understand the chemistry and physics.
Think of it this way. Pissing in your swimming pool is gross but not really perceptible ... until everyone does it all the time. Then, at some point, the urea loading and ph changes and the various random pathogens at imperceptible background levels suddenly reach the tipping point and then GROSS! Anyone who has owned a swimming pool or hot tub and has let the chemistry get away from them, realizes how difficult it is to try to bring it back under control. Shock treatments, ph adjustments, etc but you often end up having to dump the water and start fresh.
We can't do that with the sky and the ocean.
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