A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest, is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilizers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 100 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.
In case people don’t know, phosphate additives are a requirement for modern agriculture, it’s a finite resource that doesn’t renew itself and it’s constantly washed into the sea by rain.
Not having phosphate means that there’s no food production.