CORRESPONDENCE
16 June 2026
By
Jianjun Wu
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
I read, with alarm and hope, the call by Meihua Yang and colleagues to treat fertilizer production as strategic infrastructure (see Nature 653 , 26–29; 2026 ). Their analysis urges efficiency — green ammonia, precision agriculture, strategic reserves. But chemistry, and chemistry education, needs more than efficiency to advance.
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Nature 654 , 834 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01914-w
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