The Haber-Bosch process can be useful. It can be used to create nitrogen fertilizers, and produce more food. However, the process has had an overall negative effect on the Earth.
The Earth was in the process of creating more mouths to feed, then food to feed those mouths, "It stated that people would inevitably produce more mouths to feed than food to feed them." Then the Haber-Bosch process help people produce more food, thus allowing the Earth's population to flourish. “Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world’s population was around 2 billion,” said Alan Weisman. This shows that the process drastically impacted our population, with it now reaching upwards of 7 billion. With the population booming, there may have been food, but what about the other resources? There would be a lack of resources. Looking into the future, in order to decrease the population, the worlds total fertility rate (TFR) has to be less than 2.1. Weisman had a goal to get the population back down to 2 billion, and this would mean the world's TFR would have to be about 1. Some countries are close to this number, but others are way above it, such as many of the countries in Africa. Weisman's plan might be able to fix the boom in the population that the Haber-Bosch process created. This would mean having to create a world wide one child policy, but I don't think that would go over so well.
The Earth is very densely populated, and if the population keeps growing how it is growing, we may reach our limit point. The Haber-Bosch process made the population sky rocket. This was an overall negative effect, because the Earth cannot sustain all of the people it is producing. If the population keeps increasing at the rate it is, we will inevitably run out of resources.
