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it's thursday november 10th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Is algae the secret to feeding our growing world?

Plus, new evidence for a sixth mass extinction that occurred even earlier than the Big Five.

And some prescient thoughts on democracy from 50 years ago,

courtesy of the creator of Charlie Brown. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

If you thought turkey bacon or veggie bacon were abominations, just wait for algae bacon. You've probably heard

about how we should and maybe we'll start eating more insects as time goes on due to their lesser

impact on the environment compared to other protein sources. But according to some experts,

we should also be eating more algae.

Luckily, algae is a pretty big category, which means the possibilities are quite expansive.

Algae includes thousands of different marine species, maybe even a million of them, according to National Geographic.

From big macroalgae, like the seaweed that wraps around your

legs at the beach, to microscopic organisms like phytoplankton. The global population of humans

is set to hit 8 billion next week, and by 2050, the United Nations expects it'll be nearly

10 billion. So, National Geographic argues, if expects it'll be nearly 10 billion.

So, National Geographic argues, if we were to feed all 10 billion people, global food production would need to grow by 50%, an increase that would require 1.4 billion acres of land.

But the cultivation of that much land wouldn't necessarily be good for the environment

because of all the disruption to natural ecosystems it would cause, and how certain ecosystems like

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