How much is the Earth worth?
The Earth possesses countless resources, minerals and unexplored materials. So, what is the value of the Earth for money?
The Earth is the habitat of mankind, but if one day we had to sell it, how much would the Earth be worth?
The Earth will cost no less than 10 trillion dollars.
- The Earth has about 193,000 billion tons of gold, worth about 8000 billion USD.
- Diamond values are more difficult to estimate because of their design, but also worth about $ 3,000 billion.
- 8% of Earth's crust covered with aluminum will be worth about 12,000 billion barrels of oil and 10,000 billion tons of coal to serve energy needs, which is worth about $ 180,000 billion.
- That doesn't count to 1400 tons of man-made Uranium worth about $ 46,000 billion.
- But the biggest value is Earth's iron core, which has a huge amount of hard to estimate, worth more than 4.6 trillion dollars.
- In addition, the earth has something to help sustain life of 1332 billion cubic meters of water, whose value cannot be counted.
So if sold, the Earth will cost no less than 10 trillion dollars .
Update 19 December 2018
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