It's a small world after all, say scientists warning of sand scarcity

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | September 14, 2017 | Eoin O'Carroll

[Jagermonster]

Excerpted per rules.

I knew it! They must have put the U.S. Government in charge of the Sahara!

[Red Badger]

Here’s another Thread from last week, same subject:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3584009/posts

[sparklite2]

Venezuela is importing oil
and there’s a sand shortage.
We’re not doing it right.

[DoughtyOne]

atmosphere
ozone
sand

Just great, another thing to obsess over.

[Army Air Corps]

Anthropogenic Sand Shortage Cooling Warming Change!

[dhs12345]

Another reason to invest in beachfront property.

[miliantnutcase]

Have we witnessed peak sand?

[Trillian]

Sand fleas hardest hit.

[Impala64ssa]

Too bad there isn’t a bullsh!t shortage.

[Teacher317]

umm.... 75% of the globe is covered with water... and underneath that water is... anyone? anyone? That's right, SAND!!

Now what happens when demand increases and supply decreased? Very good, price goes UP... making it profitable and worthwhile to grab sand from under the water, at ever-increasing depths.

Why must Liberals make everything far, far more difficult than it should be?

[MarMema]

The place I live and the last place I lived have tons of it.

Another crock of BS

[blam]

Chips I made from sand are exiting the solar system aboard the Voyager Space Probes.(ahem) That's where some of it went.)

[Gen.Blather]

So, have we reached Peak Sand? We will now go into sand scarcity just as Global Warming, or, perhaps, a new Ice Age, or maybe Climate Change...depending on the hysteria of the moment, where our lack of sand will...uhm...make it easier to have sex on the beach?

I am surrounded by a sea of sand in Florida. My contents of my carpet alone would build enough iPhone IC’s to supply the globe. I will happily supply anybody! Bring money.

[PGR88]

Sand is clearly a social justice issue.

The White man’s hand controls the land with the sand!

[MarMema]

New Mexico

[taterjay]

Saudi Arabia’s next big export. And we thought by ruining OPEC we could make them eat sand. SANDPEC, the world’s next great cartel.

[MarMema]

Michigan

[roadcat]

Another reason to invest in beachfront property.

That's nickels and dime stuff. You should invest in North Africa, get thousands of acres of Sahara sand for real cheap! Over 3.6 million square miles of desert sand, equal to the size of China.

[G Larry]

Rats!

The Mid-East wins again!

[2ndDivisionVet]