Student Worksheet

Japan imports most of its oil because it holds almost no reserves of its own, while Saudi Arabia exports oil most countries lack, an example of scarcity working at the scale of whole nations. It also traces scarcity into prices, droughts pushing up the cost of water and crops, and returns to COVID-19, when disrupted supply chains left medical supplies and consumer electronics scarce worldwide.

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