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

I first started to read concerning articles about our voracious appetite for this naturally occurring item. I always knew we used a lot of it but wow the increasingly large annual volumes are starting to create havoc. We should be paying closer attention to this issue.

This OP-ED really started a search for more information for me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/op...ring.html?_r=0

Then this was an interesting article from last year.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...955669/?no-ist

More recently another OP-ED that things are getting worse not better.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/op...ring-sand.html

As you would expect both sides are lining up in this one. Anybody concerned?

I'm as concerned about sand as I am of climate change. Sorry to be honest, all I care about is my family.

Sand ??? No

Bees ??? Yes

Declining bee populations may lead to significant agricultural losses in U.S. - The Daily Beast


But to be honest nothing really matters when it comes to the destruction of the planet besides to many people

So regardless of the pet problem you want to name from Climate Change to Pesticides it always comes back to the essential core problem




To many people

I may worry a little about the conditions future generations may inherit but being of a certain age, as in old, not concerned enough to do anything about it.

Bob

Every time I drive into a major city, I have the same thought...

We need another good plague, or warp drive.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

But to be honest nothing really matters when it comes to the destruction of the planet besides to many people
So regardless of the pet problem you want to name from Climate Change to Pesticides it always comes back to the essential core problem

To many people

Truer words were never spoken. Changing this would go a long way to reducing many other impending issues alas I hear no one trying to address this one with the exception of previous Chinese one child policies.

Originally Posted by BobH

I may worry a little about the conditions future generations may inherit but being of a certain age, as in old, not concerned enough to do anything about it.
Bob

As a very good friend of mine is fond of saying "Oh it's a problem....... just not for us".

I usually discount any tree hugging or bunny hugging articles from the NY Times.

Originally Posted by Brenngun

I first started to read concerning articles about our voracious appetite for this naturally occurring item. I always knew we used a lot of it but wow the increasingly large annual volumes are starting to create havoc. We should be paying closer attention to this issue.

This OP-ED really started a search for more information for me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/op...ring.html?_r=0

Then this was an interesting article from last year.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...955669/?no-ist

More recently another OP-ED that things are getting worse not better.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/op...ring-sand.html

As you would expect both sides are lining up in this one. Anybody concerned?

Where I live, as you know I'm sure, we've had our beach recede terribly in past decades, only in the last 20-25 years has some serious effort been made to recapture much of the lost beach area and clean up the water to International Blue Flag status...water now is usually better quality than most of cottage country.

But we'd lost significant portion of the beach in the 70s and 80's...now with the massive effort that was undertaken...it's beauty has been restored.

Great article, "beach nourishment" - great phrase....

I worry more about all the land that the concrete etc. made from much of this sand is covering up.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Where I live, as you know I'm sure, we've had our beach recede terribly in past decades, only in the last 20-25 years has some serious effort been made to recapture much of the lost beach area and clean up the water to International Blue Flag status...water now is usually better quality than most of cottage country.

But we'd lost significant portion of the beach in the 70s and 80's...now with the massive effort that was undertaken...it's beauty has been restored.

Great article, "beach nourishment" - great phrase....

A "long" time ago and I can't remember where I read an article about the West cost of the USA.

Basically it stated that the sand naturally traveled from the north to the south along the coast. To trap the sand on their beach people built piers etc. and when they trapped their sand they "starved" the people to the south of them of what naturally came their way.