Dear #Steemit user, Did you know that Every house, skyscraper and glass building, every bridge, airport and sidewalk in our modern society depends on sand? We use it to #manufacture #optical fiber, cell phone components and computer #chips. We find it in our #toothpaste, powdered #foods and even in our #glass of wine (both the glass and the wine, as a fining agent)!
Is #sand an infinite #resource? Can the existing #supply satisfy a gigantic #demand fueled by construction booms? What are the consequences of intensive beach sand mining for the environment and the neighboring populations?
Based on encounters with sand #smugglers, barefoot #millionaires, #corrupt #politicians, #unscrupulous real estate #developers and #environmentalists, this #investigation takes us around the #globe to unveil a new gold rush and a disturbing fact:
the “SAND WARS” have begun.
PS: Did you know that all the sand needed to construct Dubaii and the fake new islands came from Australia? It is because the desert-sand is too fine grained so it cannot be used in constructions. Imagine that... Selling sand to the arabs, well - it did happen.
Please share this info with as many people as you can, the environmental damages from this Sand-War affects the life of everyone on earth.