Surging demand for sand leads to UN warning of a global sand crisis | DW News
Surging demand for sand leads to UN warning of a global sand crisis | DW News
The UN has called for action to avert what it calls a “sand crisis.” Demand for sand has surged to 50 billion tons per year amid population growth and urbanization.
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I think just break up Australia to solve the problem, no one is going to care anyway.
Time for wars to be fought not for oil but sand!
Why don’t they crush dessert sand to make it suitable?
ROFLOL FUNNIEST S—T IVE EVER HEARD, WHAT WORLD OF DERELICTION
I call cow manure
on the lack of sand
Come over to me. I’ve got plenty here in the gutter behind my backyard.
Sahara?
Aaa a dumb comment from one who knows nothing, but isn´t there enough sand in Sahara?????
Why not get them from the Saharah, it’ll also help with the Green Wall project on the region?
“Will heed this warning.” Tell is what warnings have been heeded in the past? People don’t listen.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO START LIVING HUMBLE SIMPLE REWARDING LIVES, FILLED WITH GIVING TO LESS FORTUNATE!!! GREEDY PEOPLE MAKING THE EARTH UNLIVABLE!!!! 🌍 😢
compare per-capita (or square feet land) usage between country!
Empty out the Sahara. What’s the problem?
Well quit building disposable buildings and then after the local government quits providing tax breaks abandon them only to move a mile down the road building new buildings and parking lots. This type of behavior is destroying our local community.
The population collapse should reduce the need for sand.
It’s not a problem of not enough sand.. it’s a problem of logistics… Critical transportation infrastructure construction will solve this
Meanwhile in the Sahara…
Keep complaining about deserts and sandstorms, dif up the desert sands and deal with it.
the sahara tho 😂
Everywhere there is a crisis😵💫😵💫
Wonder what China will do once we all realize that we don’t need as much as we take 🤔
And this is noticed by the UN?
Entrepreneurs put profits b4 the future of humanity
There are a lot of deserts.
Russia has a plan to create a lot more sand with Nuclear adapters.
OK you’re just making stuff up now.
Not just for numerous meaningless construction, but also for creating islands especially in the south china sea.
The one thing the earth is not short of… is sand
Heeellloooooo? Sahara duuuuhhh
What can make the dems scream🎶? The sand demand can🎵
Hahaha, yeah riiight! That shows you don’t have any news!
The major crisis is the lack of common sense in the world. 🙄
Where are you Israeli? Find a solution
Enter Sandman
This is a joke right?
they try to preach climate change to the little folk who hardly have an impact while corporations around the world exploit the planet by the metric tons. GTFOH before i put my climate footprint up your ….
Can river freshwater sand be replaced by the sand they don’t want? Did not know this was a problem
Are you serious Hey guys there is a whole Sahara dessert full of sand
too many people problems
When Grog need sand, Grog hit rock with hammer many time.
Gee a problem we never knew we had, but it’s now nearing a crisis and we need more regulation. What a surprise! Soon we’ll have a looming salt shortage, and after that a granite shortage, and after thar….
😂😂 This is not going to work. 😂 how can you bring up a statement of sand? 😂 what can of wisdom the you have? 😂😂 you are so funny. 😂😂 no one will by your ideas 😂 is like you don’t understand the type of world you are living.🤣 No one will by your idea.🤷♂️ Because, your idea is too low 🤷♂️🤣🤷♂️🙄🤷♂️🤣🤷♂️
Great so now glass bottles are no longer sustainable in replacing plastic bottles.
THERE IS ONE SOLUTION FOR THIS ITS Z.P.G.
„I hate sand. Its course, and rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere.“
It is just another example of human stupidity. The problem is that humans think that the earth is a infinite commodity and it will continue to provide for us as long as we have the money to pay for it. We humans are a symbiotic lifeform and are reliant on the world’s ecosystem to survive. At the current rate that we are destroying our planet humans will be extinct in under 100 years and there will be around 50% less people in around 50 years. We just don’t have much time left and unless we immediately change the way we conduct our lives our extinction will be unavoidable. Fossil fuels can easily and cheaply be replaced with already available sustainable technologies and the same goes for everything that we use. I doubt that the human race will ever change because global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels is causing climate change and that fact has been proven for over 50 years but still people think that it is not happening. The average person is no more intelligent than the average dog and that is not being disrespectful to dogs. The human race hasn’t actually evolved for over 5000 years, yet our technology has advanced considerably over that time.
I’m just here for all the people who haven’t been paying attention and are commenting variants of: "but there are deserts" 😂😂😂
I know what we can do with the worlds plastic crisis, maybe it could be ground up to replace natural sand in the making of concrete?
Desert sand is dry and loose. Why not just bring it to rivers and sandy beaches to replenish sand that has been extracted from these places ? In time the desert sand will be transformed into usable sand for construction.