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The world is running out of sand — and there's a black market for it now
businessinsider.com ^ | 6/11/2018 | Rob Ludacer

Posted on 11/20/2019 5:48:31 PM PST by rktman

If you're planning a beach vacation, you'd better get to it soon. An alarming statistic for you: 67% of Southern California beaches? GONE by 2100. All because of sand. Even if you don't think about the grainy stuff, you use it daily. You're reading this off something made with sand, looking at it through a screen made with sand, surrounded by buildings made with concrete. I could let you guess what's in concrete, but I suspect you're already catching onto a theme here. The following is a transcript of the video.

I'll try to make this quick since we don't have a lot of time. The world is running out of sand.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Gardening; Reference; Science
KEYWORDS: businessstuff; castlesmadeofsand; concrete; sand
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To: rktman

“As sands through the hour glass so are the days of our lives.”


21 posted on 11/20/2019 6:10:44 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: rktman

I don’t believe it.


22 posted on 11/20/2019 6:11:47 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: rktman

No, we are running out of sand — that we can harvest — because of threats and protests from leftist wackos and republican Jeb Bush types.


23 posted on 11/20/2019 6:13:07 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: rktman

Interesting info about sand in the Midwest.

http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/student/allen1/Webpage.html


24 posted on 11/20/2019 6:13:26 PM PST by Romans Nine
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To: rktman

I ask you ...can the MSM get any more dumb than this??

....i guess ....yes


25 posted on 11/20/2019 6:13:35 PM PST by ShackledNoMore
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To: All

put democrats in charge of the beach and you run out of it..


26 posted on 11/20/2019 6:14:03 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: rktman
The luckiest rat governor in the history of California!

Need Sand. Step up and make a bid!

27 posted on 11/20/2019 6:14:20 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Nancy Pelosi Thinks/Says Americans Are Too STUPID To Elect Their President! Time for #DCEXIT!)
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To: rktman

I kicked NatGeo to the curb at least 25 years ago at this point.


28 posted on 11/20/2019 6:15:32 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Mark17

Yeah, right? Every climate alarmist idiot from Greta “Scoldilocks’’Thunberg to Miss Zanti Misfit(aka AOC) is telling us we’re running of water, we’re running out of clean air, we’re running out of this and we’re running out that. And yet in the same breath, according to The Barmaid From Manhattan , NYC we’ve only got, well now 11.5 years left so what’s the point in worrying?


29 posted on 11/20/2019 6:15:52 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: rktman
"The world is running out of sand"

Gorebal Warning will Kill all of us first...

30 posted on 11/20/2019 6:16:04 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: BipolarBob

They have tried the oceans are being acidified, now outta sand, next will be we are running out of mud.


31 posted on 11/20/2019 6:16:43 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: Grampa Dave

#27 That is gov hair gel.


32 posted on 11/20/2019 6:18:47 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: rktman

What do you mean gone in2100? It’s gone now!


33 posted on 11/20/2019 6:20:38 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: TexasGator

—You didnt read the article and are guilty of fake news!

Guilty of using an ad blocker, it seems. I know; scandalous.


34 posted on 11/20/2019 6:26:00 PM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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To: rktman
Outer Banks buried in sand, cut off from mainland following destructive nor'easter
35 posted on 11/20/2019 6:27:00 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: rktman

“The world is running out of sand — and there’s a black market for it now...”

Sure it is...and America is running out of idiots.


36 posted on 11/20/2019 6:29:41 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: jmacusa
we’ve only got, well now 11.5 years left so what’s the point in worrying?

Exactly. Why worry? We should all be trying to enlarge our carbon footprint. 😁🤣👊
By the way, who is the nutcase who came up with that slogan? 👎

37 posted on 11/20/2019 6:30:40 PM PST by Mark17 (Dad of Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go much faster than Army tanks :-))
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To: rktman

Sand is a renewable resource. It’s ALWAYS getting made.


38 posted on 11/20/2019 6:33:33 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

“The problem is that desert sand is different from river sand, and much less satisfactory for construction purposes.“

Did not know this until reading the article. If it wasn’t for the oil, the land in the middle east would be TOTALLY worthless.


39 posted on 11/20/2019 6:46:16 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: DouglasKC
Sand is a renewable resource. It’s ALWAYS getting made.

Parrot fish?

40 posted on 11/20/2019 6:53:14 PM PST by Mark17 (Dad of Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go much faster than Army tanks :-))
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