Thread: Sand! Is civilization slipping through "It's fingers"?

As an island dweller I am concerned about many things, sand, bees, ocean garbage, fish stocks are all on my mind from time to time. Part of our problem is our meddling. We as humans always want more, and we want it faster, and cheaper. It is all disrupting the balances that nature had originally put in place. We have polluted in ways and in volumes we have not even begun to fathom. We have messed with millions of years of genetics for faster growing and higher yielding crops that will resist the broad spectrum herbicides that would otherwise decrease yields. For that the bee may be the one that pays the price, however in the end, without our helper, we may pay too. We have done a lot of damage for a long time, and there is way too many of us, in centralized locations. We easily have enough food to feed the world, just not where everyone is. By having high expectations that are unsustainable there is an inevitable consequence, that we are yet to discover. If every year we make more than we did the year before, and higher percentages of people have a higher standard of living, and more and more it is an unsustainable curve. We cannot continue and not expect that it is not going to crash.