the settlements. of i'm from carry out and i want to preserve the safety of the village i've clashed several times with us on these lands al jazeera world tells the story of a palestinian village that's struggling to survive and the growing threat to the residents desperate to preserve their homes village under occupation at this time. on counting the cost the mouse wins over the fox we'll look at disney's acquisition of twenty first century fox and how the impact on media landscape also net neutrality and with the changes that affect how we view all that content and making the most of the greeks with solar power counting the cost of this time on al-jazeera. who are fully back to go with a look at our main stories on al-jazeera north korea has defiantly defended its

ballistic missile program at the united nations security council the public session was called after pyongyang tested what is believed to be its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile in november but the meeting at the u.n. which was attended by u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson failed to come up with any new steps to curb north korea's actions mike hanna reports from the united nations. the red scarf a reflection of the chilly weather outside and little warmth displayed in the chamber towards north korea is representative listened to condemnation from speaker after speaker with what appeared to be studied. the situation on the korean peninsula is the most thems and dangerous peace and security issue in the world today. publicly at least the council has been united in imposing an extensive series of sanctions but the u.s. secretary of state questions the commitment of russia and china continuing to allow

north korean laborers to toil in slave like conditions inside russia in exchange for wages used to fund to clear weapons programs calls into questions russia's dedication as a partner for peace similarly as chinese crude all flows to north korean refineries the united states questions china's commitment to solving an issue that has serious implications for the security of its own citizens these charges rejected by china and russia which insisted that the ongoing joint military exercises by the u.s. and south korea made any dialogue all but impossible to me is that you should lean so is that only opinion two months of quiet by north korea unsub by washington with unprecedented military exercises and the listing on a tear a funding list that leads us to question the sincerity of statements that there is a preference for a peaceful solution to the crisis will go to schools with dual use and with all eyes on him the north korean representative the period nervous his hands shaking

but also unapologetic arguing that his country has a sovereign right to protect itself against what he called us aggression our position of when you clearly have formed words of individuals the third party prince even meijers up with the prince. and the right of resistance and development of from the us the meeting ended with agreement on the desirability of dialogue but division as to how to achieve it the u.s. adamant that there has to be a unilateral freeze on nuclear testing by north korea before any talks can be possible. why can a united nations in other world news israeli forces have killed four palestinians including a disabled man during a wave of protests across the occupied territories and gaza all the. more than one hundred eighty people were injured in friday's demonstrations against donald

trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. u.k. prime minister theresa may has hailed the e.u. decision to move on to the next phase of breaks it negotiations talks will now move on to trade after european leaders city nothe progress was made on citizens' rights see irish border and the u.k.'s b.-o. to leave the e.u. . austria is on course to have a far right party in government in a coalition with conservatives the anti immigration freedom party has reached a deal with the larger people spotty two months after parliamentary elections that to any old sebastian kers who leads the conservatives won those elections and will now become europe's youngest leader both parties had campaigned for tougher immigration rules and the deportation of asylum seekers in peru politicians have initiated impeachment proceedings against president pedre public which in ski he is accused of failing to disclose payments from brazilian construction giant odebrecht

to companies controlled by him he denies any wrongdoing and a turkish banker accused of plotting to help iran evade u.s. sanctions has taken the witness stand in a new york court. that denies being involved in a scheme to launder iranian money he denies he conspired with turkey sharing in gold trader rob coming up next stand wars do stay with us. we bought the house about two years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but some here you could see how much sandpoint lost underneath the house. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by crimbo bodies around the world fred i'm happy i'm going to do good i

gotta put it made a video i like the fact i live forever. washed away by rising sea levels without being in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand units economy just dollar. loss to human greed and stupidity. when we use that same. i mean. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches in entire islands already disappearing cool when the sand workers. for most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. but is

feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. does this so familiar substance play any other role in our daily lives. sanda is what i like to call an unsung hero. it's because there are just endless examples. of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyd's which we all really know commonly aware of. sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. it's also the source of silicone dioxide. a mineral found an hour winds cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. and an astounding variety of other products we use every day. but the strategic mended such as. you. think about your computer.

chips can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. the minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our hyper connected society they form a basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand even helps us fly in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. it's almost become like a the air we breathe we don't think too much about it but you can't live without it . and the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. construction for the last one hundred fifty years sand mixed with cement to form

concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. because of its low cost strength and ease of use disgrace larry has become the dominant building material around the globe. the quantities used are astronomical. to build an average house it takes two hundred tons of sand. for a larger building like a hospital around three thousand tons. each kilometer of highway devours thirty thousand tons. and to build a nuclear plant the estimate is about twelve million tonnes. production of sand exceeds fifteen billion tons. and that

is a. so huge that is beyond imagination how much is fifteen billion you don't know because no other resource is used in such vast quantities as maybe with the exception of water. so where in the world does that much sand come from. let's just say the sand men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn. behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something that's easily found like you might think it is used to be that you'd have a sand and gravel deposit and you'd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so

you'd have sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type material is all been taken away it's gone to be used it already. with the process of service and exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. now we've turned to the oceans for sand. to satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand we've industrialized extracting it from beneath the waves. and the workhorse of the industry is a dredger. a giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. the right bessel in the right location can pump up to four hundred thousand cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. each dredger cost anywhere

from twenty five million to two hundred million dollars. but the sand is free. so the thousands of tankers combing the world's oceans have every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture it's a sandbox for developers were no fantasies to grandiose. projects. of sand and huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and indeed just making more land has been doing with the with the artificially constructed islands

. landfills or even bigger consumers of sand the concrete. with a booming economy the emirate launched an ambitious expansion project. after the year two thousand when the price of real estate soaring as a result of speculation developers bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy it. the self-proclaimed eighth wonder of the world cost over twelve billion dollars and devoured more than one hundred fifty million tons of sand dredge from dubai as coastline. with a giant palm still under construction to by flying high in the seemingly endless supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project the world. the world is an island paradise would run president had opportunity can be found it is almost as this artificial archipelago of three hundred islands designed as

a map of the world absorbed fourteen billion dollars and three times as much sand as the palm. the. a place to magination. today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in two thousand and eight. deserted island is now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on to buy and restore its glory. to kill the corporation managing the palm in the world the crisis is more than financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated by his natural sand resources and you think we'll find of course dubai is on the edge of the desert they've got old asylum they need like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesn't the emirates simply help itself to the desert. does it say and is the wrong color end of sand for building

a lot of fishel islands why because deserts and all the grains have been blown around by the wind and is typically very round a very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they don't stick together you need sand that that is more angular rougher rougher age say that naturally sticks together. see sand is perfect for island building and construction but it's in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. the burj khalifa at the time of construction the world's tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. we have a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously

a joke. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. thirty five hundred australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits have tripled in twenty years accounting for a five billion dollar jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliance on importing sand from other areas you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. and thirty years the country known as the switzerland of asia has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the sixty three islands that make up the city state are bursting at the seams singapore is sort of lying on the import. for its very existence and the land mass is literally increased twenty percent over the last

foresee it is and that's largely being reckon nation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create new land. singapore is already transformed one hundred thirty square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another one hundred square kilometers by twenty thirty. having devoured all its own reserves its for ration potatoes targeted its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia. malaysia and indonesia have each decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges still to the brim which imo daily and it's important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from.

tommy guns beer. guns are. you going to hear very every day every week. this is what is driving the show so. don't put. us in. your individual. little. your fourth division nobody or three of us are not welcome. thanks to local traffic and networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other come. but in the same system. we saw the thing is it just it was

invisible. but it just is this place. to take you. to flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government the most loyal client. the sun trading singapore's he usually have a classical is a massive of ours were concerned it's just a is build a. leader in the region particularly with. global sun that's but their companies will brain imports of that country and should be its human rights violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. the effects of underwater dredging are far from benign. much of the ocean floors rocky or covered with only a thin layer of sand. built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years.

as you dredge up a set. of course all the the any walls and. on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever they think they will just be at the. sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest just threatened. like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. ninety two percent in the nation's fiscal challenges are down from the tension of the city because mining activity is we in this corridor if we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of

indonesian families but that's only the first of sand dredging to adverse effects. if you have an oil made of sand it's only there because of conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that and then you've upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the sail. after the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. so the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. and so by a combination of natural growth this is and human excavation. literally disappear. one of the most stunning impacts of the sand trade was the disappearance

of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we lose that sand that we lose. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes all is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. twenty five indonesian islands have already disappeared. like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the world's hunger for raw materials. scarcity and dangers local communities and sets governments against each other. as demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. morocco's gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. but its famous

beaches have also been attracting some strange four legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches seven days a week. in search of. sand. the men on the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. the builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. i repair i have i don't want to give you. are you not i not going to bend an

addendum going to not wonder how you could have been acquitted oh well coming up to you had no love no my love my double got nothing. by that i mean i got them help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys really do with their day but didn't come but you imagine you're going out your head not them have them come we did a little bit about good at going to create a video i like them i like that lap it's estimated that forty to forty five percent of the sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches . loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but that's not where the problem ends. without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive make america's new buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse.

ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps. in mumbai a.v. enjoy. the position of being the financial capital of the country andrea also have a huge housing boom construction boom that's because of the influx of so many new people into the city. but the indian economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. the value of sand is such that it's

a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the it's a big business is smuggling the fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. a lot of the feet in the whole. who control of the sand mafia controls a lot of the construction the construction materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves. in addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole value chain right from the extraction to construction the the profits in each bottle fit the administration and the police. under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand ply their trade in broad daylight and more than eight thousand dredging sites scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent.

for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tentacles of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches. just two years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about a house though from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses there on the water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with her on the b. front were row number two and i thought the fact that these houses won't be here

and five here. with both the house about two years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here. but from here you can see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean. so. the beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last two years the a scar is underneath the houses so. the erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or there is steam to normal. globally between seventy five and ninety percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and that's only going to get worse.

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session was called after pyongyang test said what is believed to be its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile last month but the u.n. meeting failed to come up with any new steps on how to curb north korea's actions. israeli forces have killed four palestinians including it is say balls man during the latest wave of protests across the occupied territories in gaza more than one hundred eighty people were injured in friday's demonstrations against donald trump's decision to recognize them as israel's capital u.k. prime minister theresa may has hailed the e.u. decision to move to the next phase of breck's in negotiations talks will now move on to trade after european leaders said enough progress was made on citizens' rights the irish border and the u.k.'s bill to leave the e.u. . austria is on course to have a far right party in government in a coalition with conservatives the anti immigration freedom party has reached

a deal with the larger people spotty two months after parliamentary elections thirty one year old sebastian curtis who leads the conservatives won those elections and will now become europe's youngest leader both parties had campaigned for tougher immigration rules and the deportation of asylum seekers politicians in peru have initiated impeachment proceedings against president bedroom pablo kaczynski he's accused of failing to disclose payments from brazilian construction giant odor break to companies controlled by him kaczynski has resisted calls for him to resign and denies any wrongdoing the man suspected of ramming his car into a group protesting against a white supremacist rally in the u.s. is now facing a new charge of first degree murder this indicates a premeditated attack and carries a penalty of twenty years to life in prison james feels jr had initially been

charged with second degree murder for the attack in charlottesville thirty two year old heather hair died and and dozens of others were injured in the a time and a significant point five magnitude earthquake in indonesia's most populous island has killed at least one person there's been structural damage in several towns and cities it's back to sand wars next. the world is running out of sand by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal markets around the world. behind air and water. is the most used commodity in the world. where humans have intervened and we've built structures a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel

a parking lot the beach can't move back and we see long term beach lost. as part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes and summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede and level off to better absorb the energy of the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but we've built too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by the waves which carry their sand out to sea. if you have an eroding beach what is the problem. not the symptom the simple symptom is the beaches eroding but what is the problem. what's causing this us. we are drawing the lines today three quarters of the largest cities in the world

population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates. increasing density by twenty twenty five three quarters of the world's inhabitants will live near the ocean and those thin ribbons of sand which surround the continents are feeling the pressure. to the water and i hope that we learn from that but now we're here. and we have to figure out how to make projects. and that's what brings tourists. in florida nine out of ten beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood of all those who depend on this economic engine. each year of the planet's tourists head for the beach. hotel industry as well as recreation transportation food services and

a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g.d.p. depends directly on beaches. letting them disappear out of the question. so what we're trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the impact and that's why we have to take these unnatural acts. to the beaches. to keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest. in beach replenishment. sand floor and to the beach. some people see this is a solution others see it as a band-aid which only treats the symptoms. those big machines that when they go take this there in killing everything within

that sand is ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped for the life forms in that part of the beach aren't prepared to be buried alive and suffocated it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. replenishment is a temporary remedy after a year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies it's a matter of big money big big influence green it's not a pleasant thing the thing you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant. in a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes break waters and all sorts of other structures . but sand cannot be so easily tamed.

the constant movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up. and all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we all dramatically changing just by building on. all by building a sea wall around the extends out from the beach we build a wall to to contain sand to keep it on i'll be what do we do we stop the sand from supplying a neighbor's beach. the tragedy is that people are just not aware they're not aware that. and action here is going to have a reaction somewhere else so we all have to be very careful when it comes to redeveloping because then we have a responsibility because we don't want these great wonderful treasures that we want

to share with our children to disappear because of greed because of irresponsibility. and because of just not dan paying attention. in order to avert further catastrophe it's important to understand the source of ninety percent of the world sea sand often a long way from the beaches. for the most part it starts in iraq somewhere that breaks down it might be in a river from ice or snow or rainfall and is that grain comes out of the granite or the sandstone it just gets into a small stream and then a larger river and in a normal world ultimately will work its way all the way to the shoreline. it takes thousands or even millions of years for a grain of sand to reach the sea and it's

a journey full of pitfalls. in america we have been building one dam every day since the dec relation of independence and seven hundred seventy six one a day. eighty thousand dams blocked the rivers of the united states in china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by two thousand and twenty not a single waterway will reach the sea. and in the rest of the world there are at least eight hundred forty five thousand dams and it's not only water they're holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance.

one quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostage to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trapped river dredger. although it's regulated in many countries it's still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week the result about fifty percent of a sandwich or nurse the world's beaches will never reach the sea. the coastline like many other environments it's like the earth was always thought so big so vast that we couldn't have an impact on it we built a dam for water or electricity which is a good thing but downstream there's no more sand so somehow we have to figure out how to bring all those things back into balance by taking some conscious steps to

try to reduce the impacts of those things we're doing as a civilization. on them. growing up to green beaches slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. if you read the rising level. you get an ecological time bomb. to see right it's just going to happen a lot more quickly without saying. but it's not going to stop there it's going to take out hit all half of manhattan and it's going to this could take our cities as well it's going. they keep coming. the sand is our barricade and we have to

understand that. in the middle of the indian ocean sand is a matter of life and death. of the sand divers have been collecting call sand from the lagoon for years and selling its developers. but with sea levels rising this sand harvesting is leading to some serious problems. sand is a very ambitious commodity and the moment it's because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every second every day every year is such a false and it is eat. or you don't deny. the

mall deaves our road at an alarming rate residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more the memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick and have a demonic in the home and nobody did it come up was done deal with the law one nun a difficult adama to go lie number macdonald didn't i got in the ottoman economically monophyletic the highgate got the law given enablement in an economical need of money for the last of the night in the going to come and live in . several hundred islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such as small as the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. but in another better irony of the sand wars new. construction were choir's ever more sad. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand

in we have written history that goes but. we can't just. far from the mel deaves beautiful threatened beaches. greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one third of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china sixty five million flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis thirty

percent of the homes constructed since one thousand nine hundred six sit empty entire airports have been built without seen a single passenger and in dubai the emirate continues to build and import sand even if ninety percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. but sadly real estate speculation doesn't hold the monopoly on the wasting of sand governments are also to blame. i would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt we've built snaking around the world have swallowed up massive amounts of the world's beaches. think about the number of roads that governments across the way have to beat it's the public sector why the largest can do most of sad. how the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. access to energy in the developing

of the former stage on climate change on the reform of the agricultural common policy on the common fisheries policy on land grab on not traversal seas and on access to water without burial for you find that you need a problem to get a lot was before it's going to get on the agenda. we talk about water because we know there's a major problem with that's right now in europe. and we have had the debates and that we've had the policy we're implementing a policy and soil we're still having a debate. on science. we're not having the debates. it's very very crucial that. scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the foot for the use they used most which is construction. can we continue to build and at the same

time for yourselves from this dependence on sand. or other materials capable of replacing concrete. from the straw that's burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. except maybe the slab on the floor but and there earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and they're fireproof. you don't have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with ninety five percent recycled materials all the steelers recycled it's made from. japanese cars you know it's all recycled steel and when this building is finished they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. there's so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe

the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps thirty five different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use recycled materials as far as possible. like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects. but these solutions must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the construction industry. construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle . what if there was another granular material

that might substitute for sand. there's one very interesting beach north of san francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped all of their trash on to the beach the glass got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is started out as a garbage dump when nature is done the glass beach has inspired people to attempt a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida. which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or something like that into an asset. to the birth of. i think everybody realize the glass is made out of saying that if people start scratching their heads and say well maybe that's a good use of it to return it to science. glass bottles and packaging are

everywhere they're usually collected and recycled into new containers but when it's crushed into fine pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because of all characteristics it's uncontaminated and regular beach sand only looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so it is safe and i mean there's no reason to expect a difference. sand from recycled glass is one promising alternative for the beaches of florida and elsewhere on the beaches where it has been tested even the sea turtles have adopted it as a place to lay their eggs. as much as one quarter of the glass that we throw away is not recycled and ends up in the. crushed it could be a perfect component in the making of concrete. but compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. when sun begins to cost high

maybe. ah the sources can't compete with it though attentive can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete that's something that is going to be a truck bottom. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle to game budget in missy the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are appearing. on the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fishing. but today the fishermen are angry. a multinational with a thirst for sand and plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods . but what need an issue does. it doesn't matter. sagal so will says of

the killed in the global. companies have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. on the does rules get to the things we need. so what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not so rare there is no impact. on polynomial greenness well you know so they get on quite often with a greedy or more preschool seduces a. lot of them see if they move it. from a deal because of a more. elaborate duck just for me and all the while. simplices them also do no evil move home. if. he is going to do for something something.

done. into. a shoes st. exasperating of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with. perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars. once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is

whether it's each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think there's hope. so you see if. this is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from there. from the beaches so it is much is there take these sand this so you don't be more and this will have a very seedy. go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. let's not let the beaches disappear. i believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and tried to impress upon others the gravity of the

issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. given the scale of which society is built with. or even cern deserves a little more respect. whether it's more freeways whether it's more dams we've got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to a simpler. where living. have been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself it's been if to fight for itself. maybe needs us to fight for. the fate of the world's beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come

when we'll see sand with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the sad wars for the good of a song. winds is certainly showed its hand across almost all of the us but more recently he's consolidated south of the real cold air being up this talk it out looks worse than

it is as rain coming up into texas i think in the next day or so slow movements that sca should be a warming trend but the real drop in temperature is has been for when he pegged through teria and just down to the lakes and it's a great lakes i think which is bit more snow here you also see behind me the cold front over the currently of the pacific will bring snow to the cascades then the rockies i think over the next day or so and possibly a bit further south in that denver's ten eventually drops to walk but we are. gets a sunday first and we're still talking about five in chicago here's the rain it's gone up through well it's texas of to have that sort of area and it will keep probably moving this general direction so it's cold there's no more significant snow to come but from that of lake effect snow up in the northeast moving south again is a bit more subtle than it has been of late is almost a cloud above my head that's the end of the front bringing rain into northern mexico asked the sheriff's spokesman if you can they're very light and they're going to be any atoll they're probably going to be blown through western cuba until

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