The Industrial Revolution couldn’t have happened without the Agricultural Revolution that preceded and accompanied it, freeing up workers for industry.

In medieval times most of the population were farmers by necessity. In the UK, output per acre tripled and the proportion of the population in farming went from 60% to 20% in 1840. And the UK was still almost entirely self sufficient at this time, food imports only became substantial in the late 1800s.

Similar changes happened across Europe, though timing varied by country with the spread of industrialisation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolut...

The biosphere seemed to scale quite a bit before we invented synthetic fertilizers. I don't think it's so much a problem of composting not scaling as much as our supply chains being wasteful and linear.

Again, not commenting on the merits of this technology, I just think it's not correct to say that composting can't scale.

WW2 could not have happened without Haber ammonia .. for explosives.

What?

The Germans pioneered modern fertilizer production in the 1890s-1910s.