How Much Food Is There On Earth?
Go to https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth to build your math & science skills! Food already in cupboards, supermarkets, & warehouses could feed humanity for 4 months, but potential food - berries,...
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Hi, this is Emily from MinuteEarth. Canada’s Quebec province produces almost three quarters of the world’s maple syrup, and hoards 50,000 barrels of it in the globe’s only strategic maple syrup reserve. This reserve exists not in case of an apocalypse situation where Canadians have to get by on maple syrup alone, but because, if one year’s harvest is low, rather than having the supply drop, and prices shoot up, and demand go down, Canada can use the reserves to supplement the syrup supply and keep prices and demand stable. Other countries have food reserves too – both for economic and emergency reasons. But if something crazy were to happen, how long could humanity get by on the food we have in the planet’s cupboards, supermarkets, warehouse...
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Hi, this is Emily from MinuteEarth. Canada’s Quebec province produces almost three quarters of the world’s maple syrup, and hoards 50,000 barrels of it in the globe’s only strategic maple syrup reserve. This reserve exists not in case of an apocalypse situation where Canadians have to get by on maple syrup alone, but because, if one year’s harvest is low, rather than having the supply drop, and prices shoot up, and demand go down, Canada can use the reserves to supplement the syrup supply and keep prices and demand stable. Other countries have food reserves too – both for economic and emergency reasons. But if something crazy were to happen, how long could humanity get by on the food we have in the planet’s cupboards, supermarkets, warehouse...
