Algae Could Fix World Hunger

Do you like the taste of algae? Because it could be the future of your alimentation.

Transcript

00:00If enough people switch to algae, we can potentially reverse the amount of carbon that we have

00:11in the atmosphere and eventually reverse global warming.

00:30Nonfood is a company specializing in algae-based foods.

00:33We are very interested in algae because it's extremely sustainable.

00:36It can grow with about 1% of the resources of other crops like corn or soy.

00:41That means 1% less water demand and less CO2 emissions than those crops.

00:47So we really see it as the future of food.

00:53It's one of the oldest organisms on Earth, so it's the reason that we have oxygen in the atmosphere.

00:58It thrives under a lot of conditions, so it kind of just makes sense as the most efficient food source.

01:04We want to bring back that efficiency of the early ecological epochs

01:10and in doing so really reduce the human footprint of agriculture on the Earth today.

01:34If there is an increased ecological catastrophe over the next decades,

01:50then algae is actually at least something that can grow in a lot of different conditions.

01:54It can potentially even grow in farmland and places that can no longer sustain regular kinds of plants and animals.

02:02So at least it's a backup plan if it's not the first plan, but we hope it is the first plan.