Table for 10 billion, please
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🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today explained Sean Ramos from Late Last Year we brought you an episode with some huge news. |
| 0:05.7 | Humanity had just hit a big milestone. |
| 0:08.5 | According to estimates there were for the first time ever 8 billion of us. |
| 0:12.5 | We were only about 1 billion people 220 years ago or so, about 1800. |
| 0:17.8 | So it's a really fast amount of growth in a fairly small period of time. |
| 0:22.4 | This is really just the last 200 years that we've just boom, taken off the way we have. |
| 0:25.8 | And humanity is not slowing down. |
| 0:28.2 | By 2050 there's projected to be nearly 10 billion people alive. |
| 0:32.8 | On the show today we're going to ask how we're going to feed 10 billion of us. |
| 0:37.7 | Not only will we need to grow more food, we'll also need to do it with less land. |
| 0:43.4 | We'll need to do it more efficiently. |
| 0:45.1 | Because if we don't, we'll need to clear more and more land for agriculture. |
| 0:49.3 | Lucky for us there is a country where the future of food is already here. |
| 0:53.3 | Vox is Kenny Torella, takes us there momentarily. |
| 0:59.2 | Support for this show comes from the Genesis GB70 Performance SUV. |
| 1:05.2 | Every Genesis is a reminder to try something bold. |
| 1:09.2 | To keep growing, keep hustling. |
| 1:12.2 | At Genesis, they've harnessed all that excitement of beginnings into their performance SUV, the GB70. |
| 1:20.2 | It's a car built to turn heads with stunning design inside and out. |
| 1:25.2 | It's packed with intuitive technology inside, like the 14.5 inch infotainment system. |
| 1:31.2 | And fingerprint recognition plus the GB70 features all wheel drive, |
| 1:36.2 | which is bound to add a little more acceleration to your next drive. |
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