{"id":12305,"date":"2015-03-29T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12305"},"modified":"2015-03-29T17:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T21:01:26","slug":"the-economics-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/032915_2056_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The world is built upon sand, writes Vince Beiser:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sand is in glass, detergents, cosmetics, toothpaste, solar panels, silicon chips, and buildings \u2013 which are really just sand stuck together with concrete.<\/li>\n<li>Deserts seem like a limitless source of sand, but that sand is usually unusable because it is shaped by wind, making it too smooth for most purposes.<\/li>\n<li>40 billion tons of sand is used annually and with economic growth driving up demand in places like China and India riverbeds and beaches have had their sand stripped away.<\/li>\n<li>Over 20 Indonesian islands have disappeared; their sands converted into land reclamation projects for the small island country of Singapore.<\/li>\n<li>But exporting sand is destructive \u2013 so much so that Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam have banned the export of sand to some areas.<\/li>\n<li>Such bans only fuel illegal mining which further damages the environment. Around 50% of the sand used in Morocco is thought to have been mined illegally.<\/li>\n<li>India is dealing with &#8220;sand mafias&#8221; that work with corrupt police and government officials to kill opponents who would seek to end lucrative mining operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the importance of sand, how the sand mafias operate, how they might be eliminated, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/03\/illegal-sand-mining\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/03\/illegal-sand-mining\/\">Wired<\/a><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is built upon sand, writes Vince Beiser: Sand is in glass, detergents, cosmetics, toothpaste, solar panels, silicon chips, and buildings \u2013 which are really just sand stuck together with concrete. Deserts seem like a limitless source of sand, but that sand is usually unusable because it is shaped by wind, making it too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/032915_2056_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12311,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions\/12311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}