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Sand is the second-most used resource after water (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sources: Elhacham et al. (2020), Hackney et al. (2021), UNEP (2022)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Problem is sand is being dredged from poor areas that rely on shallow water environments for survival, aka fishing. Companies come in, take all the sand, destroy the environment in the process by deepening these shallow water environments and driving away all the fish - leaving the local population destitute as the local government recieves the payout without them seeing a cent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

They stole a whole beach in Jamaica.

Locals went to bed with a beach and woke up to the sand missing in the morning.