Phosphorus Paradox Scarcityand Overabundance of a Key Nutrient
Phosphorus Paradox Scarcityand Overabundance of a Key Nutrient
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磷的稀缺与关键营养素过剩的悖论
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
T. Lougheed
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作者：
T. Lougheed
1938年，当时的总统富兰克林·罗斯福（Franklin Roosevelt）在带领美国度过大萧条（Great Depression）和为欧洲战争做准备的间隙，花了一点时间向国会讲述了磷的问题更具体地说，他谈到了磷酸盐，这是最常见的磷的商业利用形式。
In between shepherding the United States through the Great Depression and bracing the country for war in Europe, then-President Franklin Roosevelt took a moment in 1938 to tell Congress about phosphorus.1 More specifically, he spoke about phosphates, the most commonly commercially exploited form of phosphorus.
Roosevelt’s was not a scientific presentation but a cautious alert about the critical role this element plays in agricultural production. Private interests were exporting increasing amounts of the country’s phosphates to markets abroad, he warned. Given the prospect that this vital constituent of fertilizer could come into short supply domestically, Roosevelt recommended framing a formal policy to deal with a strategic issue.
“The disposition of our phosphate deposits should be regarded as a national concern,” he said. “The situation appears to offer an opportunity for this nation to exercise foresight in the use of a great national resource heretofore almost unknown in our plans for the development of the nation.”1
In spite of Roosevelt’s call, no phosphate policy was forthcoming. More than seven decades on, the phrase “heretofore almost unknown” still echoes in many discussions about phosphorus. Meanwhile, the significance of phosphates is even more profound today than it was in the 1930s. Phosphate rock has emerged as a globally traded commodity linked to a diverse set of politically charged debates, ranging from environmental degradation and threats to human health to food security and agricultural sovereignty.