A healthy, wealthy, sustainable world
..won't happen without chemists. We need a new generation of young chemists to avoid becoming an undernourished, impoverished, unsustainable world.
From the viewpoint of the periodic table it is clear that some elements cannot be sustainable because of the amount we use. Potassium is one, and yet this element is vital to our food supply. In this article I will look at four of the world's needs, for food, water, fuel, and plastics, where chemistry is the key to sustainability.
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