What an incredibly silly article. These people have to invent the most ridiculous reasons to be worried so they can make life more difficult and expensive.
Sand is a basic building block of civilized life. Shutting down sand production from beaches and waterways means, unless you live next to a desert, you have to go further with greater transportation costs to get it, then they will bemoan the environmental impact of transporting it.
THAT is the reason...............they don't want any more expansion of civilization. Inside each lefty is a Malthusian Neo-Luddite trying to gain power!................