Sand shortages (NPR)

Question 1

We are building cities at a pace and on a scale that has never remotely before happened, mainly all over the developing world.

Answer 1

India, Indonesia, Vietnam. China has used more cement in the last few years than the United States used in the entire 20th century.

Question 2

There’s so much demand for sand right now that we are…

Answer 2

Stripping riverbeds bare. We’re stripping beaches bare. We’re tearing up forests and farmland to get at the sand.