After water and air, it's the most used natural resource in the world. But are we really running out of it?
If so, why? And what happens if we do?
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Show Notes
After water and air, it's the most used natural resource in the world. But are we really running out of it?
If so, why? And what happens if we do?
In today's episode we cover:
- 🌡 What do we use sand for?
- 🏘 How much sand goes into a house?
- 🇨🇳 How much sand China uses
- ⏳ Where does this sand come from?
- 👮♂️ Sand mafias
- 🤷♂️ Can we avoid using sand?
- 🗼 Sand in Dubai (it doesn't come from where you think it does)
Key vocabulary: Rolling, Dunes, Trekking, Infinite, Implausible, Run out, Pace, Consume, Crucial, Small-fry, Concrete, Asphalt, Aggregate, Runways, Gravel, Foundation, Cubic, Inhabitants, Urbanisation, Phenomenal, Reiterate, Vast, Embarked, Infrastructure, Trucks, Fine, Grains, Spherical, Barefoot, Cement, Angular, Sucks it up, Finite, Emergence, Mafias, Bribing, Turn a blind eye, Extracting, Corrupt, Suck up, Sucked up, Ecosystem, Ecological, Over the course, Outstrips, Particles, Temporary, Reinforce, Clocking in, Imported, Excess, Sink, Bunkers, Gargantuan, Uplifting,
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