Transcripts For ALJAZ Sand Wars 20240712

Announced that he and most of his supporters will boycott that election and he has called on all of the opposition parties to join him in a united front to do that so clearly the response from president model is to make one is to agree to one of the main demands of the opposition and as long been one and that is the release of the Political Prisoners however this is not enough to convince certainly why the law and probably many of the other opposition parties to to actually take part in this election which is incredibly important for president legal last mughal he needs it so that he could it could be recognized as legitimate theres no point in having an election that you win but with no opponents taking part so that is what this is about even even russia and china are pressuring me to hold elections that will at least bring on board some of the internationally recognized mainstream opposition and not just those who are called opponents but who are really under the pay or the control of the government itself hamas says its reached an agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal brokered by cats hard comes as gaza struggles under a ban on fuel delivery. The israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited a delegation from the United Arab Emirates to visit israel thats after the 1st flight by its National Airline touched down in abu dhabi with white house adviser jared kirsner and other u. S. And israeli officials on board a u. S. Brokered deal to open up relations between israel and the u. A. E. Was announced 3 weeks ago how this then ians denounced the pact as a betrayal. The 2 u. S. President ial candidates are blaming each other for violence at protests across the country donald trump has accused his democratic rival joe biden of what he calls a left wing civil unrest biden says trump is poisoning the nations values is a rioters is a dangerous people these are killers they kill a lot of people and they dont even think about it they wake up the next morning get even think about it this is the extreme left agenda for america they want to appoint radical prosecutors judges and better of a shows who will set criminals free. Weve arrived in a moment in this campaign we all knew including the press in front of me do we get to. The moment when donald trump would be so desperate to do anything to hold on to power dollar chop has been a toxic presence in our nation for 4 years. Poison the how we talk to one. Poison how we treat one another. For his day in the values this nation has always held dear. Poison in our very democracy. Now just a little over 60 days we have a decision to make. Will we rid ourselves of this toxin or will we make a permanent part we make it a permanent part of our nations character hong kong has begun a mass coronavirus Testing Campaign but activists and some Health Workers are calling for a boycott many people are skeptical about the beijing back drive. An investigation into witness tampering by colombias former president is being handed over to the Attorney Generals Office over a rebase suspected of trying to silence allegations he had links to paramilitary groups supporters a fiver a coast exiled former president s have filed for him to be a candidate in octobers election Laurent Gbagbo has been living in belgium after being acquitted at the International Criminal court for crimes against humanity those are the headlines soundboards is up next. We bought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand weve lost underneath the house. The world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world at the time to have them huddled got up at to try to do i think that i was simply. Washed away by rising sea levels we had been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 units become just. Lost to human greed and stupidity. When we use that sand that mean we loose. Our life. Weve never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will live in the sand. For most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. But is feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. Does this so familiar substance play any other role in our daily lives. Standard is what i like to call the Unsung Heroes of our lives because theyre just endlessly examples. Of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyds which we are really. Commonly aware of. Sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. Its also the source of silicone dioxide. A mineral found an hour winds cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. And an astounding variety of other products we use every day. But if. You. Think about you computer. Chips can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. The minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our Hyper Connected Society they form a basic material for microchips without which our computers Credit Cards Bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. Sand even alps or supply in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. Its almost become like a the air we breathe we dont think too much about it but you cant live without it. And the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. Construction. For the last 150 years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. Because of its low cost strength and ease of use disgrace larry has become the dominant Building Material around the globe. The quantities used are astronomical. To build an average house it takes 200. 00 tons of sand. For a larger building like a hospital around 3000 tons. Each kilometer of highway devours 30000 tons. And to build a Nuclear Plant the estimate is about 12000000. 00 tonnes. Production of sand exceeds 15000000000 tons. And that is a quantity that is so huge that its beyond imagination how much is 15000000000 you dont know because no other resource is used in such vast quantities. Maybe with the exception of water. So where in the world does that much sand come from. Lets just say the sand men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn. Behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. Business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something thats easily found like you might think it is used to be that youd have a sand and gravel deposit and youd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so youd have sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type material has all been taken away its gone abuse it already. With the positives of surface and exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. Now weve turned to the oceans for sand. To satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand weve industrialized extracting it from beneath the waves. And the workhorse of the industry is a dredger. A giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. The right bessel in the right location can pump up 2400000 cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. Each dredger cost anywhere from 25000000. 00 to 200000000. 00. But the sand is free. So the thousands of tankers combing the worlds oceans at every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. An astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture is a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. But as projects. Of sand and huge volumes of sand and Construction Projects concrete and just making land has been doing with the with the official reconstructed island. Landfills or even bigger consumers of sand and concrete. With a booming economy the emirate launched an ambitious expansion project. After the year 2000 with the price of state soaring as a result of speculation Developers Bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy it. But. The world cost over 12000000000. 00 and devoured more than 150000000. 00 tons of sand. With the still under construction flying high in the seemingly Endless Supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project. The world. The world is an island paradise would run president had opportunity can be found it is almost as resort official archipelago of 300. 00 islands designed as a map of the world absorbed 14000000000. 00 and 3. 00 times as much sand as the palm. The world. A place beyond imagination. Today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. Deserted island is now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on to buy and restore its glory. To kill the Corporation Managing the palm in the world the crisis is more than financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated to buy as natural Sand Resources and you think well find of course dubai is on the edge of that theres a theyve got old asylum they need like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesnt the emirates simply help itself to the desert. Desert sand is the wrong color end of sand for building a lot of fishel islands why because desert and all the grains have been blown around by the wind is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they dont stick together you need sand that that is more angular rougher rougher age say that naturally sticks together. See sand is perfect for island building and construction but its in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. Although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. The burj khalifa at the time of construction the worlds tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. We have a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously a joke. That thats actually come true in the case of the by. 3500. 00 Australian Companies exports into the Arabian Peninsula their profits have tripled in 20 years accounting for a 5000000000. 00 jackpot. And australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such construction and land reclamation. Singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. In 30 years the country known as the switzerland of asia has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population is more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up this city state are bursting at the seams singapore is for lying on the import. For its very existence in the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 years and thats largely been reckon nation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create a new land. Singapores already transformed 130 square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another 100 square kilometers by 2030. Having devoured all its own reserves its for ratios appetite is targeted at its neighbor supplies. One after another cambodia. Malaysia and indonesia have each decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. Singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. Suspicions of Central African hangover singapore and the dozens of barges filled to the brim which imo daily and its important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. Tommy guns beer. Guns. You come here every day every week. This is what is driving the visuals of. What it. Is like that in. Your individual. Your 4th Division Nobody yours or your nice example. Thanks to local Trafficking Networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional Companies Continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. But the other guy. But in the same system. Which i think is it just it was invisible is a great state but this is this case. History of. The law with the tacit support of the government for most loyal client. The son trading singapores if he usually have a political as the mass of the baucus is ours were concerned its just a is bill the south as you know leader in the region particularly with the last global sun thats but that companies will brain imports of that country and should be its Human Rights Violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. The effects of underwater dredging are far from benign. Much of the ocean floors rocky or covered with only a thin layer of sand. Built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. As you dredge up a set. Of course all of the the any walls and plans that are on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever Living Communities are they will just be and the. Sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest just threatened. Like many archipelagos many of indonesias islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. 92 percent in the nations fiscal challenges come from the tension of the city because. It is when this coral reef we lost fish. Livelihood. Everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but thats only the 1st of sand dredging to adverse effects. If you have an oil made of sand its only there because of conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that. Then youve upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the sand. After the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. So the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. And so by a combination of natural growth this is and human excavation. The oil and literally disappear. One of the most stunning impacts of the sun trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that same. That we loose. Our life. Once an island disappears the International Maritime boundary changes all is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. 25 indonesian islands have already disappeared. Like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the worlds hunger for raw materials. Scarcity and dangers local communities and sets governments against each other. As demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. Moroccos gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. But its famous beaches have also been attracting some strange 4 legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches 7 days a week. In search of. Sand. For men and the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. Rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. The builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. That. I wrote that i have i dont want to give you. Are you going to bend and addenda going to be mad or not do you have enough to know what kind of do you had noticed. Well i dont want to load what double got my back i mean i got them help oh yeah. Look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what cigars right with their day but they didnt come but you know youre not going out your head not them have them couldnt move but im not good at going to create a video i like them i like that lap its estimated that 40 to 45 percent of the sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches. Loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but thats not where the problem ends. Without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive make americas New Buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse. Ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps. In mumbai a. V. Enjoy. The position of being the Financial Capital of the country andrea also have a huge housing Boom Construction boom thats because of the influx of so many new people into the city. But the Indian Economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. The value of sand is such that its a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the its a big business is smuggling fam. The sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. And a lot of the people in the whole. Who control of the sand mafia oso controls a lot of the construction the Construction Materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves. In addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole value chain right from the extraction to construction the the profits in each bottle fed the administration and the police. Under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than 8000. 00 dredging sites scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent. For the mafias beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arms reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. The tentacles of the mafias however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches. Just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. About i think about a house though from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses verano water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with her on the beach front where a row number 2 and i the fact that the house wont be here and 5 here. We thought the house about she. Years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand weve lost underneath the house. Because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean. So. The beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last 2 years the scart mint is underneath the houses so. The erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. Globally between 75 and 90 percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and thats only going to get worst. More than 7 decades ago a country was split into a good deal to me and now were. Being paid all it took was a pan a mop and a collapsing empire and when the british had to draw a line they pulled these 72 had never been to india before examines the violence of india and pakistan on the docks what the future holds for these 2 korea maybe has politicians borders of blood. 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This is al jazeera im there you know with a check on your world headlines venezuelas president has pardoned more than 100 opposition politicians and activists the government says its a move to reconcile the country but others see it as an attempt to boost participation in decembers elections which some of the opposition is boycotting. Hamas as its reached an agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal brokered by katz heart comes as gaza struggles under a ban on fuel deliveries. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited a delegation from the United Arab Emirates to visit israel after the 1st flight by its National Airline touched down in abu dhabi with white house adviser Jared Kushner and other u. S. And israeli officials on board a u. S. Brokered deal to open up relations between israel and the u. A. E. Was announced 3 weeks ago. Denounced the pact as a betrayal of the 2 u. S. President ial candidates are blaming each other for violence and protests across the country donald trump has accused his democratic rival joe biden of what he calls leftwing civil unrest biden says trump is poisoning the nations values is a rioters these are dangerous people these are killers they kill a lot of people and they dont even think about it they wake up the next morning get even think about it this is the extreme left agenda for america they want to appoint radical prosecutors judges inventor of a shows who will say that criminals freed the job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder tell the truth to be candid to face facts to lead not to incite thats why im speaking to you today incumbent president is incapable of telling us the truth capable of facing the facts and incapable of healing he doesnt want to shed light he wants to generate heat and he struck in violence in our cities an investigation into witness tampering by colombias former president s alvira rebate is being handed over to the Attorney Generals Office the 68 year old is suspected of trying to silence allegations he had links to paramilitary groups its back to sand wars next on how does iraq by. The world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. Behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. Where humans have intervened and weve built structures a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel a parking lot the beach cant move back and we see long term beach lost. As part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes and summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede and level off to better absorb the energy of the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but weve built too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by the waves which carry their sand out to sea. If you have an eroding beach what is the problem. Not the symptom the symptom is the beach is eroding but what is the problem. Whats causing it so. We are drawn to coastlines today 3 quarters of the largest cities in the World Population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the world. Increasing density by 2025 to 3 quarters of the world to live near the ocean and those ribbons of sand which surround the continents are feeling the pressure. If we think. Water and hope. But now we hear. And we have to figure out how to make projects. And thats what brings tourist. In florida 9 out of 10 beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood depend on this economic engine. Each year of the planets tourist had for the beach beaches feed the Hotel Industry as well as recreation transportation Food Services and a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g. D. P. Depends directly on beaches. Letting them disappear is out of the question. So what were trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the impact and thats why we have to take these unnatural acts. To the beaches. To keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest. In their. Sand from the ocean floor and to be. Some people see this is a solution others see it as a bandaid which only treats the symptoms. Theyve got to put up the beach and say this is beach nourishment but its just another hole. Those big machines that when they go take this there in killing everything within that sand as ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped for the life forms in that part of the beach arent prepared to be buried alive and suffocate it. Its a killing process for the sake of dollars. Peter planet is a temporary remedy after a year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies its a matter of big money big big influence green its not a pleasant thing to see you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so pleasant. In a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes breakwaters and all sorts of other structures. But sand cannot be so easily tamed. The Constant Movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up harbors and all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we are all dramatically changing just by building on. All by building a sea wall around the extends out from the beach we build a wall to to contain sand to keep it on our beach what do we do we stop the sand from supplying the neighbors beach. The tragedy is that people are just not aware theyre not aware that an action here is going to have a reaction somewhere else so we all have to be very careful when it comes to redeveloping the coastline we have a responsibility because we dont want these great wonderful treasures that we want to share with our children to disappear because of greed because of irresponsibility. And because of just not dan paying attention. In order to avert further catastrophe its important to understand the source of 90 percent of the world sea sand often a long way from the beaches. For the most part it starts in iraq somewhere that breaks down it might be in a river from ice or snow or rainfall and is that grain comes out of the granite or the sandstone it gets into a small stream and then a larger river and in a normal world ultimately will work its way all the way to the shoreline. It takes thousands or even millions of years for a grain of sand to reach the sea and its a journey full of pitfalls. In america we have been building one dam every day since the deck relation of independence and 7761 a day. 80000 dams blocked the rivers of the United States and china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by 2020 not a single waterway will reach the sea. And in the rest of the world there are at least 845000 dams and its not only water theyre holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance. One quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostile to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trapped river dredger. Although its regulated in many countries its still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week the result about 50 percent of a sandwich or nurse the worlds beaches will never reach the sea. The coastline like many other environments its like the earth was always thought so big so vast that we couldnt have an impact on it we built a dam for water or electricity which is a good thing but downstream theres no more sand so somehow we have to figure out how to bring all those things back into balance by taking some conscious steps to try to reduce the impacts of those things were doing as a civilization. On them. Grain after green beeches slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. If you add the rise in level b. R. C. You get an ecological time bomb. To see right its just going to happen a lot more quickly without saying. But its not going to stop there its going to take out you know half of manhattan and its going to this could take our cities as well its going. Keep coming. The sand is our barricade and we have to understand that. In the middle of the indian ocean sand is a matter of life and death. Of the sand divers have been collecting call sand from the lagoon for years and selling with developers. But with Sea Levels Rising this sand harvesting is leading to some serious problems. And. Sad it is a very precious commodity in the maldives because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every 2nd every day every year is such a false and it is eat. Or you dont deny. A the mole deaves our road at an alarming rate residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more than memories. Really not god and id get all of them i say in a demonic not im in a body did it come up was how to undo what the law gave the one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number mcdonnell building i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the lodge i given the name up in and it will make on the money the board unless the united made any to come and live in. Several 100 islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such a small way the capital. Already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. But in another better irony of the sand wars new. Construction require ever more sand. We have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 in the have written history that goes but. We cant just. Far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches. Greed and speculation drive the Global Markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. Bombay is not an isolated case theres never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. One 3rd of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. In china 65000000 flats are empty yet the Construction Industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis 30 percent of the homes constructed since 1906 sit empty entire airports have been built without seen a single passenger and in dubai the emirate continues to build and import sand even if 90 percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. But sadly real estate speculation doesnt hold the monopoly on the wasting of sand governments are also to blame. I would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt weve built snaking around the world have swallowed up massive amounts of the worlds beaches. Think about the number of roads that governments across the way have to beat its the Public Sector why the largest can do most of sad. How the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. Access to energy and the development of the forestay on Climate Change on the reform of the applicant for common policy on the cullen fisheries policy on land grab on not traversal seas and on access to water without the aerial for you find that you need a problem to get a lot was before its going to get on the agenda. We talk about water because we know theres a major problem is that right now in europe and we have had the debates and that weve had the policy were implementing a policy and soil were still having a debate. On science. Were not having the debates. Its fair to say that petitions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the for the use they used most machines construction. Can we continue to build and at the same time for yourselves from this dependence on sand. Or other materials capable of replacing concrete. From the straw thats burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement except maybe the slab on the floor but and there earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and theyre fireproof. You dont have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with 95 percent Recycled Materials all the steelers recycled its made from. Japanese cars you know its all recycled steel and when this building is finished they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. Theres so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps 35 different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use Recycled Materials as far as possible. Like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects. But these Solutions Must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the construction Industry Construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle. What if there was another granular material that might substitute for sand. Theres one very interesting beach north of San Francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped. All of their trash on to the beach the glass that got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is started out as a garbage dump when nature is done the glass beach has inspired people to attempt a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida. Which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or Something Like that into an asset when youve killed 2 birds with one. I think everybody realizes that bias is made out of saying that people start scratching their heads and say well maybe thats a good use of it to return it to science. Glass bottles and packaging are everywhere theyre usually collected and recycled into new containers but when its crushed into fine pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because of all characteristics its uncontaminated and regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so it is safe and i mean theres no reason to expect a difference. Sand from recycled glass is one promising alternative for the beaches of florida and elsewhere on the beaches where it has been tested even the sea turtles have adopted it as a place to lay their eggs. As much as one quarter of the glass that we throw away is not recycled and ends up in the. Crushed it could be a perfect component in the making of concrete. But compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. When sun begins to cost high maybe the souces cant compete with it and if can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete thats something that is going to take the a truck. Pricing. As sand alternatives and new construction methods struggled to gain budget in missy the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are piri. On the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fishing. But today the fishermen are angry. A multinational with a thirst for sand plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. But what need is an issue to look at all but. It doesnt matter. So ill go so this is a. Look at all the thoughts of the global. Companies have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. And that does rules to the things we need. So what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not so rare there is no impacts. Going from you know me doing this well enough so i can call my office with a good yarmulkes good citizen. And then see if they move it says. Yes for me and all the while. Said chris is im also do you know even mcconnell. So. Blue book is going to do for sub sub. Talent. Into google on the us shoes st. Exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with religion. And the love of the world. Perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars. Once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is whether its each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think theres hope. So you see if. This is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from there. From the beaches so it is much is there take these sand the soil it ocean bilby more and this will have a very seed is in fact i then. Go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. Lets not let the beaches disappear. I believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and tried to impress upon others the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. Given the scale of which society is built with and i think cern deserves a little more respect. Whether its more freeways whether its more dams weve got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to a simpler. Where living. Theyve been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself its been left to fight for itself. Maybe needs us to fight for it. The fate of the worlds beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come when well see said with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. Then by working with nature instead of against or we can win the said wars for the good of a song. And the weather conditions across the west of the United States of improved of the last few days that is helping with those Fire Fighting efforts just beginning to push down and further to the sun if youre seeing quite a lot of shows and funnel soames in fact that also flash flood warnings across areas of arizona more of that as we go through cheese attempt is much better 36. 00 celsius in phoenix 28. 00 across in los angeles this is where the weather is across the Southern Plains it will work its way east as we go on into wednesday and we could have some severe thunderstorms developing certainly late in the day on wednesday but not too bad across the southeast weve got one to scout a child in florida and as i say out across the west theres no real healthful rain but temperatures are not as high as they were the winds also have come down that we had done to Central America and the carabineers this month the cloud you can see here this possibly could develop into the next Tropical Storm but for now its producing some very heavy amounts of rain itll work its way west is through the caribbean says we go through tuesday so it already take quite a few heavy showers and thunderstorms across into cuba and all modes into hispaniola meanwhile out across western mexico there is more rain in the 4 calls that is actually moving even further to the north but some very heavy downpours at all some warnings in place by wednesday it is improving picture and elsewhere a case of scattered showers. 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