Morocco Drives a War for Its Phosphates. If you add up the phosphate reserves in this entire region, it amounts to 72 per cent of the entire phosphate reserves in the world. Phosphate, along with nitrogen, makes synthetic fertilizer, a key element in modern food production.

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[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

300 years ago we would have "colonized" them and taken the phosphates from those ay-rabs.

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

72% of the entire world's deposits in one tiny country? I call bullshit.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why would it be bullshit? Lots of the world's resources are concentrated in single areas. Why don't you look it up?