DW always has some of the best documentaries. Sand mining is another one of these ecological nightmares that we will have to face. World has finite resources and we have to find alternatives. Too much of a thing is not good but humans are not understanding that.

@DWDocumentary

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

I'm a retired sedimentologist and I used to work on these questions. This is a well balanced documentary but I miss two things: 1. A map of the German coastline maybe even a map of the entire Waddensea from Texel to Skallingen, and a short explanation of the currents and tidal regime along this part of the North Sea. 2. the suggestion of building sea walls is often made. These constructions do more damage than good, as has been proven in many other places because they reflect the energy of waves and currents (it can't dissipate) and this retains energy and thus keeps more sediment in suspension and erodes beaches even more. It's not just a question of sea walls being esthetically undesirable

"We will have to soon embrace alternatives" - the only alternative is to consume, produce and build less. Every alternative just shifts the problem somewhere else. Our greed and selfishness will be not only the end of us but all life...

@truthbetold3550

2 жыл бұрын

Until God intervenes...

@ooee8088

2 жыл бұрын

Nature finds a way

Human is the problem . Nature is doing what it has always been doing.

@smithrookie1858

2 жыл бұрын

british snipers are planning to shoot polish troops from belarus side (((((((((((((( SOS false flag attack !!!!!!!!! spread the news !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SOS SOS SOS SOS

@stephencurah1059

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, the person narrating says the island would be in trouble because of the loss of sand. It's not the island but the people and money to be made. It would be nice if that was said because most beaches are created or extended with additional sand

@dMi_mi

2 жыл бұрын

@@smithrookie1858 aren't they there to help? 😶

@tropes_

2 жыл бұрын

Elite humans are the problem but they want to blame you instead.

@samuelanketell8190

2 жыл бұрын

@@smithrookie1858 I don't spread fake news thanks and neither should you

Unfortunately greed and consumerism without any lack of knowledge, care or more specifically accountability of the consequences,has been happening far too long. Great insight into something that the world needs to know. Thank you.

Your Documentary’s are Amazing

We germans have to learn to let loose and forget those "holiday paradises" on the northern coasts. they were never ment to last forever and its a natural process of sandy islands to been washed away. other islands grow like la palma shows us very impressive lately

@occupymarz

2 жыл бұрын

Ja. Das is wahr✅

@iand.kinchy7391

2 жыл бұрын

Rt On ! Snowball Earth, Ice Age Cycles , ... My German side of me from Bonn , says release the ELECTRO MAGNETIC GRAVITIC Tech from 80yrs ago we took and Perfected , Then the Elite can keep their Private Jets and 30,000 sq ft homes and we don't have to Eat Bill's Bugs 😜

@dpt6849

2 жыл бұрын

@@mironRu79 they did. They go now to the netherlands for beaches😂

@richardtilbury7114

2 жыл бұрын

Just make sure every Arab you keep importing brings a few cubic meters of sand lol

@smode983

2 жыл бұрын

@@mironRu79 Wtf does that have to do with this story or their comment?

Everything “Man” touches it destroys…

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

okay, but man is spending billions to put the beach back when the ocean destroys it.

@anubaral

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 why not leave the nature in this case?

@T.v.d.V

2 жыл бұрын

Man hates his own feeble creation, so everything must be destroyed.

@laylafox4426

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 did you watch the video or just trolling? Dredging that sand up for tourism destroys the underwater ecosystem

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

@@anubaral they said it in the video. everyone leaves and the houses all end up empty

When all else fails, remember… Mother Nature ALWAYS WINS !!! You aren’t going to ‘save’ or ‘restore’ ANYTHING !!! Pbffft !!!

@shaunmckenzie5509

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Absolute insanity this is.

Thank you DW Team. Very informative. Very surprised to know few things from documentary such as Dubai imported sand from Australia, beaches are pumped with sands artificially in Germany, beaches void of sands in Africa and so many other things about sand.

@DWDocumentary

2 жыл бұрын

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@smithrookie1858

2 жыл бұрын

british snipers are planning to shoot polish troops from belarus side (((((((((((((( SOS false flag attack !!!!!!!!! spread the news !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SOS SOS SOS SOS

Wow I learned so very much from this video. Really had not really ever thought that we could run out of sand. Never new it was used in so many things. Thank you for this program !!

It is a very educative documentary. Bravo DW!

I was at Dillon Beach in California this weekend and the pristine beach has been wrecked by storms. There is a 3 foot high wall now where the tide simply took out all the sand. It's all gone now. Half the beach is 3 feet lower now. This beach is historic and it will take months to restore it if the locals decide to. It's really incredible to me that I experienced this issue recently and then got this video notification. It stands to reason I guess...

@anubaral

2 жыл бұрын

or maybe stupid humans could let them go out naturally and do not try to change them anymoore? one beach is closed the other is opened

@JonnoPlays

2 жыл бұрын

@@anubaral the sand was swept to the bottom of the ocean by a storm. Think harder, if the solution was that simple this documentary wouldn't be necessary.

@thomaslycke6990

2 жыл бұрын

@@JonnoPlays And it isn´t.

@Twobirdsbreakingfree

2 жыл бұрын

@@JonnoPlays your experience of the beach is very normal. The earth constantly changes. It's called nature. This documentary is necessary, but not for the reason you think. It's necessary to sell a lie, and you've bought it, it seems.

@rge24491

2 жыл бұрын

@@JonnoPlays Was it? Where did it go and where did it come from? Funny enough I watched a doco on sand last week, how its dissapearing due to construction. How countries are sucking all the sand out of the nearby sea and stock piling it because construction sand is becoming scarce. The reasons, sand is made in rivers, which are all dammed for green power and sucked dry for irrigation. Now this doco claims its due to climate change, yet talks about the dredging and movement of sand by humans. Go to the beach, move sand, watch the ocean remove your work and the sand is still there, yet if you removed the sand manually and put it on land, it cant replenish itself. When we build roads, houses, etc humans consume large amounts of sand. Desert sand cant be used for construction. Sometimes docos have hidden agendas.

Thanks DW very informative. I’m from Australia and it really upset me to find out that our sand has been building Dubai. I hate that place. It’s a place built on human slavery. I need to know who in our country profited from this.

@DWDocumentary

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to comment and are glad you liked the documentary!

Unfortunately some of the facts in this video are incorrect. I am a marine biologist with the university of Miami Marine research institute The sand erosion is a normal process that’s been happening for millions of years. Sand erosion occurs continually from wave erosion. It’s a non stop effect and costal cities have been pumping sand to replace errored beach sand since the thirties and forties What we are doing is trying to alter the natural course of costal erosion, not climate change

Letting Nature manage many beaches seems much wiser than us destroying nearby habitats, merely to make us happy for relaxing walks and sunbathing.

@dMi_mi

2 жыл бұрын

facts.

@ahmedgezo4054

2 жыл бұрын

You are right sir

@barbaraseymour3437

2 жыл бұрын

The rich happier…..

@drew-andresvogt652

Жыл бұрын

@@elinope4745 if they can’t save them, off well. It’s like building in other locations below sea level. IF you can make it work fine…but if you can and you expect the government to save you from nature that’s crazy.

Instead of repeatedly replacing sand, they should replace the sand and spend more off the coast, making a break water barrier. You might even place big boulders or a concrete structure to inhibit the erosion. Spending more once than repeatedly wasting millions is a win, win.

We just keep finding new ways to destroy the Earth. How can anyone deny we are at fault?

@Kiyoone

2 жыл бұрын

"In nature, nothing is created and nothing is destroyed, but everything is transformed" - Antoine Laurent Delavosier

@Soren_Kierkegaard

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe we should K*** all the humans 😂 That would actually be great for the other animals. Although maybe our ape friends would eventually become us.

@mikegarrison7957

2 жыл бұрын

Because it's been happening since before us

@oliviamonteque6407

2 жыл бұрын

"We", I have nothing to do with this greed and want all of Europeans.

leave the sand alone, you can't fight or manipulate nature like that and expect to win.

@eduardochavacano

2 жыл бұрын

its just a man made beach? well let it go. This is not smart.

@abelflores1593

Жыл бұрын

You'll never win against Mother Nature

Shifting sands of time. Sands have shifted from the beginning of time. I see beaches that shrink and I see beaches that grow. I watch jetties installed at an inlet only to enlarge the beach on the north side and shrink the beach on the south side because of the current. Ever since then the govt has spent millions to continually keep dredging to fill in the shrinking beach.

@Sinaeb

2 жыл бұрын

this is not what's actually happening globally.

@Kiyoone

2 жыл бұрын

"In nature, nothing is created and nothing is destroyed, but everything is transformed" - Antoine Laurent Delavosier

@ooee8088

2 жыл бұрын

Father time?

A Sand sock will make it worse, it will increase the speed of the water passing over (like a wing) and cause even more erosion of the sand around it, ( maybe the study will consider fluid dynamics as a factor ).

@maxmotta1200

2 жыл бұрын

Most of the sand comes. Comes from ancient mining from thousands of yrs ago

The alternative, dredging beaches is a sad alternative. Grew up along Miami Beach., always enjoyed its beautiful golden sandy beaches and crystal clear water on many mornings. Back in the 80's the state decided to dredge or expand the beach by sucking sand from 1/2 mile off shore and pour the sand in the beach. The end result is a gray silt beach that gets churned by the waves into a muddy beach line. It destroyed the beach. The solution is to built further inland or natural rock berms as breakers. We moved after almost 20 years of ocean side living. In reality, little can be done to escape the damage to property when you live on a beach, it the price paid.

@DWDocumentary

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

@MrTaxiRob

2 жыл бұрын

Were they still disposing of the canal sand out at sea? Seemed like a dumb idea to dump it and then get other sand from farther away...

Thank you DW

I live in Galveston Texas. I watched them dredge our ship channel to replenish the beaches. Multi-million dollar refurbishing. But, all I could think of was the horrible smell of sewage coming from the air around it. Not to mention, all the petroleum products, heavy metals, and chemicals that laden the ship channel sand. I would guess it was 85% silt and 15% sand. Under no circumstances would I ever let any of my family members or friends play or have festivities on that Beach. It is more like a toxic waste zone then a holiday getaway. Just saying

Thanks DW, though sad to see what’s happening to our world that was designed beautifully and created to last forever.

@truthbetold3550

2 жыл бұрын

And, it will last forever! We have God's promise on that!

@bitTorrenter

2 жыл бұрын

Designed?

@truthbetold3550

2 жыл бұрын

@@bitTorrenter Of course DESIGNED! Do you doubt that?

@mzmr258

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing lasts forever.

I'm from Florida, and this is done on our beaches too! Coral that used to exist by the shore has been covered up by sand and killed.

The sand transfer is done here in Florida also!

There's no hope is there? Human greed will be the end of us all.

Incredibly informative. Thank you! I love your docs - so well thought out

I've been going to the same beach in Deerfield Florida for 50 years. It looks the same.

@cosmiccometchichi

2 жыл бұрын

I live in Florida not far from you and I remember a beach by me completely changed after a hurricane maybe 15 years ago

@whatchamacallit70

Жыл бұрын

That’s because those rocks that where put there by man in 1958 help prevent the beaches from eroding as much. Also, Deerfield beach has had major sand restorations in the past.

2 cent opinion. there would be sandy beaches in the area if the natural environment in that area permitted it. try to stop killing marine life unnecessarily. maybe it's not up to us to build beaches where they don't naturally occur, at least not with out some sort of negative impact on the surrounding environment.

So it's called "coastal protection" but it destroys the seabed and ecosystems? So it's "holiday chair" protection then? "Coastal protection" and "beach nourishment".. wow that goes beyond euphemism all the way to delusional.

Wow! Who would have thought and sad that our beaches for some are not longer there. We continue to deplete the natural resources from other parts of the world. Dubai has gotten reacher as many of expensive neighborhoods near a beach because of it and instead of helping the most needy of it who are risking their lives for its survival. The world is full of greed and putting the blame on climate change, when we are the ones who have created this mess.

There are very few natural beaches in the U.S. The only places that I know of is in the keys.

@edwardcarrington3531

2 жыл бұрын

Huh? The entire east coast of the US is essentially beaches and all of them are natural.

Sand plays a critical part in our society and we should protect our environmental resources and find sustainable ways to live with nature, if we keep destroying what world would we live for future generations in these times of climate change

Hemp , to build houses , it’s 100% echo friendly , better insulation , buildings breath less condensation , stable from the cut hemp is a nutrient for the soil when ploughed back into the soil . Industrial hemp grows quickly . It’s uses are historic , but ignorance rules today !

What is happening on this small island is the exact same thing happening on the Florida gulf coast. The area is totally dependent on tourism and lots of money is spent on beach restoration.

Good subject dw tv.

We just keep peddling faster, hoping that our civilization's flying machine is in flight, not freefall. But the ground is rushing toward us, and the craft was never sound. - Paraphrase of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael

One of the beach front homes is more then 14 mil. The property taxes pay to preserve there island

Humans ruining the world 🌎 😪

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

no they aren't. al gore said we were going to destroy the planet in 10 years... 16 years ago. Stop being traumatized by the propaganda

@gollywog6695

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidanalyst671 I agree

it's greed people they want money from tourism there is no such thing as a "good" company trying to save their beaches... beaches move, hurricanes, storms, inundations, global warming, etc... but people arent used to it, they like "stability" and if you invested million on hotels, places, etc... no way in hell you want to "move it all away" when it will costs nowadays 50 times what someone invested 40 years ago... greed, greed, greed... the human plague that will end us all

You guys are losing your beaches, but those in the South Pacific are losing their islands, which is where their nations, history, and homes are.

So the rough, tough, hard, durable, robust, and hardened surfaces are going to become out of business if this is accurate yeah

Offset height and length of station reefs that encourage the wave break and sand and silt dropping out along the length of the beach's shore line's length. That way there is less frontal impact and overlapping and skimming off the top and into the depths action. With a space between the reef wave breaks you would have clean and known waves surfing spots, and a set of two lines at different depths and distances from the shore , one tidal under current would impact the other line and encouraged laterally down the the beach line again. Waves that break over that outer line would be diffused into laterally moving water and be more so diffused of energy .. If I had a piece of paper I would draw it for you . There are ways of setting tubes and tidal flow turbines that would also be useful for energy capture comming and going, and also blow back classifying manifold tibes that would blow sand and water back toward the shore line .. lots of designes, sort of similar but opposite a tsunami diffusing system , but yes, it can be done.

@bobroberts2217

2 жыл бұрын

Your talking about intermittent breakwaters. Those already exist. Look at Holly Beach, Louisiana. There are 3 miles of breakwaters and the problem is that it doesn’t help because sand moves on and off shore as well as along the shore. When you start interrupting that flow, you create worse conditions downdrift. They still have to pump millions of cubic yards of sand there and they have been deemed more or less a failure. Structures don’t create sand.

Lived in Florida my entire 38 year life and the beaches are exactly the same as they were when I used to go surfing as a child. Still surf quite often and exact same beach. Florida is at sea level. One of the lowest level states in the US and the world.

Anakin Skywalker: I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere ;D

@harlzaotearoa7769

2 жыл бұрын

Its better then walking and lying on stones lol

Sea is not timeless. I remember I used to live near a beach when I was young. Left the continent and stayed away for 20 years. Went back last year. I cried when I saw what it now looks. Very sad.

Thank You for this great documentary. 💖🌊

I saw Playa Bonita...one of the most beautiful beaches in Cozumel Mexico almost eliminated by a near by hurricane. Luckily a later storm brought much of the sand back later that season.

So truee... never stood still with that fact.. interfering with nature is not smart!!

The sea is not an enemy. Human desire is the enemy. Create zones along the sea where it is not allowed to build. Limit the insurance over time on installations that are too close to the water. These zones must be dynamic, to make it clear that one is not protected from erosion. First you will lose insurance, then the construction

protecting nature from the disaster caused by nature

Disappearing sand? ""China pours 60 percent of the world's cement; the country's production in 2011-2013 surpassed U.S. production for the entire 20th century.""

Likes and thanks for the video.

I wonder: could a special kind of plant that could save the coast line?

@Halifaxhippy

2 жыл бұрын

It's called weed, it'll make everyone not care. The beach is more of a state of mind than it is a place when you think about it

That sand from Cambodia is sent to Singapore.

All of humanity's problems come back to money. Not enough money for this not enough money for that. The resources exist. Our brilliant minds exist. And yet money, a thing we created and gave value to, it's always at the end of every problem.

@toekkababy5329

2 жыл бұрын

We are too many using too much resources too fast on a finite world. Question is are we smart enough as a species to reduce our numbers willingly

@Twobirdsbreakingfree

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Money merely represents, in paper form, the amount of resources that are available to a nation.

@Guizambaldi

2 жыл бұрын

This makes no sense. Read the comment above for the right insight.

@yourmommashouse

2 жыл бұрын

@@Twobirdsbreakingfree do you know how many countries that’s extremely “resource” rich but have nothing to show for it, least of all is money. For instance the oil rich nation in Africa or the diamond rich nations in Africa. How about Latin American countries that rich in lithium, or rare earth metals?

@Twobirdsbreakingfree

2 жыл бұрын

@@yourmommashouse because they don't have the means to harness those resources

With the quality of desert sand not working for concrete then no shit? I was on Mallorca once and got told: most beaches are made by dredging up sand from the sea floor. the last natural beach is near alcudia

Authorities are currently pumping sand onto the beach where I live in Ocean City, MD, USA. I call it "umbrella real-estate". It doesn't need done every time they do it (every 4-5 years) and this time it's a year where it doesn't need done. I believe $190 million USD being spent on the project. But the people here hate the idea of offshore wind and have been fighting against major projects for years because they say it's going to ruin the sunrise.... SMH

Human population growth has adversely impacted nearly all aspects of our planet. We need human reduction by 4 to 5 billion to sustain quality human life and other life. We don’t do enough to reduce the population. It’s costing us now and will worsen as the years go by.

@cosmiccometchichi

2 жыл бұрын

they are working on it 😂

When new trees are planted to replace old ones, how many different varieties of trees are used? Will the new saplings grow into the diversified forests they replaced? 🤔

Can this problem be solved by planting mangrove trees? (case in Indonesia, Southeast Asia)

20.11.2021.Very good documentary.

Thanks for your work as always sir, i really apseciate it.

This guy born in the US clearly never saw any Florida beaches or any of the Great Lakes sand dunes for that matter

creating 10 new problems for one existing problem

I have an idea why not get the sand from the deserts

and yet we try to make man made islands.... some people try to argue humans aren't the worst living beings their are. And arguments are how dangerous dolphins are... WTF IS WRONG WITH HUMANITY. beside everything...

The trouble with sand is.. it moves with the currents.. lol

At 8 billion people, we are just too many. Poor earth can not sustain us any longer. We have to be reduced. I volunteer. Want to go home to my eternal destiny.

They need to plant sea oats like they do on my beach.

Human greed The selfish to feed Our children plead Their future they need

In the Hamptons on Long Island have been restoring the beaches there for years. Wealthy NYC 'summer tourists' don't pay a cent for the beaches....they are Summer People...they don't pay any taxes at all - it's not like they are *residents* - only the servers, cooks, workers in the hotels do...because they are the ones who live *year round* and are therefore Residents...and so are taxed. This has been going on for years...

The sand was deposited onto beaches many years before humans came by. What has changed so that we have to replenish it?

Another Wonderful Video Shared by Excellent Documentary (DW)....Channel.. Video about Losing &disappearing of Shores which is occurring due to Climate changes ...If there are some ones In Germany Feeling of Their responsibilities to Protecting their attractive sea shores ...This Bad Phenomenon occurring in other countries with out their authorities attention with out counter acting especially in 3rd world countries

Love Sylt , but it's expensive to buy house there.

@CHMichael

2 жыл бұрын

It's expensive to get on the island in the first place. Keeping the riffraff out

@laylafox4426

2 жыл бұрын

@@CHMichael as riff-raff, I resent this sentiment. People in my economic class are not the cause of these ecological atrocities. These atrocities are committed for profit, either from tourism, or real estate sales. Riff-raff is not the problem by any stretch of the imagination

San Francisco has the Bay Model in Marin that emulates the San Francisco Bay system and tides.

I would like to know who is the narrator, sounds oddly similar to English NHK narrator 🧐

Really?!!! How many megatons of sand are consumed by construction all over the world?! Why the rivers cannot run freely to the ocean?!!!

@bernardwatkins1759

4 ай бұрын

There are a lot of dams worldwide. The sand collects behind it is one issue.

Miami, South Miami beach same thing too...sand imported from central America countries

Spoiled rich people saying "To hell with the environment and nature, we deserve a beautiful beach!" Ugh No wonder the earth is trying to eradicate us.

Beaches are a luxury without guarantee. Erosion is normal and trying to stop it is carrying water to the ocean. People should be more modest and respectful to climate change.

I love dw 😘❤😉😊😊👍

What a scam - some of the worst water clarity on earth and still paying those housing prices?!

New and informative for me

probs from dubai taking billions of tons of sand

@Kiyoone

2 жыл бұрын

RIGHT? WHY THEY DONT PICK FROM DESERT DUNES

@TroubleMedia1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kiyoone apparently not as good to build on

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

If you put the government in charge of the sahara desert, in 5 years there will be a shortage of sand

Cheaper to put in rock walls that stabilise the shorelines

Just leave it to the nature, you wont win

DW’s documentaries are informative but always depressing. I don’t think I’ve watched one and finished it feeling hopeful or believing that something good is happening in the world. Also this ‘offsetting’ stuff many large companies are doing is nonsense. You cannot replace hundreds of years of nature by planting new trees.

rising sea level will eat everything, these quick fix wont do anything in a long run, indeed waste of tax

If you offered humanity a million euros to destroy itself it would, we might be the only creatures to dig our own grave.

@yebolact2918

11 ай бұрын

Help me with this,

🎼‘Nothing’s as Precious, as a hole 🎶🕳 in the gr-ou-nd’ , 🎵Poignant Lyrics of Midnight 🕛 OiL 🦘

Shall I say I am an early bird today? Of course!!!

@pavanrajrp

2 жыл бұрын

It's 10.30 night in India..

@larsstougaard7097

2 жыл бұрын

Yes like bird 🐦 at the beach ⛱

@bravepacifican691

2 жыл бұрын

its Wednesday 3:30 am here in The Pacific Islands of Micronesia.

@Natty-01

2 жыл бұрын

@@pavanrajrp it's 8:39 pm in Kenya

@davidjohnzenocollins

2 жыл бұрын

1:28 pm in the eastern time zone USA.

is water wet ?

Absolute insanity

So...why don't we take sand from the deserts and put it in the Ocean?

Destroying nature

@restalone5411

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry Nature has the power to Rebuild itself we are destroying ourselves

What about importing sand from the sahara? Desert sand is bad for industrial purposes but should be just fine for people to sit on. And would give some very poor countries a good export product.

@laylafox4426

2 жыл бұрын

As stated in this video you supposedly watched, desert sand is too fine to construct beaches or islands

@ancalyme

2 жыл бұрын

@@laylafox4426 The beach is already there, unlike in the artificial islands, you just have to make a field where people can put their sunbathing towels on

@laylafox4426

2 жыл бұрын

@@ancalyme that doesn't change the fact that fine sand erodes quickly and is not good for adding to a beach. But even if it works, it is a lot of terraforming just to placate wealthy people who want their own private beaches. In this climate crisis reality, that doesn't make sense.

@ancalyme

2 жыл бұрын

@@laylafox4426 ...it's not just wealthy people who like beaches.

@laylafox4426

2 жыл бұрын

@@ancalyme but that is the scope of this conversation. We are talking about moving sand around for tourism and wealthy home owners, not creating public beaches for everyone. Only wealthy home owners and fancy tourist areas are paying to move this sand around, creating ecological problems that affect the world negatively. Don't try to excuse this greedy type of exploitation with such a stupid blanket statement. "Everyone likes diamonds, so we have to send children into dangerous mines". That's you. That's what you sound like

If i understand right in Germany sand pumping is really abouth saveing buissnes (vaccation place for rich people) and not saveing sand beach itself and in process is made tottal destruction of sea bottom and bottom and local life..and you can do pumping onlly few times till all send is destroyed and you can't use it again.