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Can Supercrops Feed 10 BILLION People?

Season 8 Episode 2

If you tried to sum up the last 150 years or so in one image, a chart of exponential growth would be a good place to start. You could apply it to life expectancy. Or compound interest. Or any number of things. But especially population growth. As we face a future population of 10 billion and a world impacted by climate change, how will we do a Green Revolution 2.0?

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