This environmental scare piece about sand depletion reminded us of the old joke about what would happen if the USSR took over the Sahara Desert: "For five years, nothing, and then a sand shortage."
Stupid question time... does the Sahara miss having that sand? Do the locals need it? And if it's being moved from point A to point B, then unless point B is somehow located off planet it strikes me that we are not reducing the global quantity of sand.
Stupid question time... does the Sahara miss having that sand? Do the locals need it? And if it's being moved from point A to point B, then unless point B is somehow located off planet it strikes me that we are not reducing the global quantity of sand.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's no way to stir up an anti-capitalist environmental panic.
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