Stop building island in Dubai.. Save a few generations of been sand short. I hate sand wet... Worse ever. Unless at beach. Irritating otherwise

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I hate the way you tryna sell out. I liked you. Fuck advertising

@@peterhooper2643 yeah, fuck earning a living and feeding your family!

so, why are islands sinking when the sea bed sand is harvested? are the islands themselves physically sinking to replace the removed maritime sand? or is some other mechanism taking place?

Ya. After watch CaspianReport for 2 years now. I am only beginning to enjoy each video's proverbs.

After watching this CaspianReport I am afraid to live in this fucking world, especially in Russia...

We are in a new age, what are we goina do...

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this guy who voices the video is really smart

Singapore is just an easy target to blame for scoring political brownie points since they are ethically different, wealthy and lacks any physical threat since they are so small, they are basically the best kind of political punching bag. Every time I hear them being mentioned, I know the politician isn't going to fix the real problems, they are just going to use the Singapore as a shield for any problems they are going to face. Just ask yourself, who is selling the sand to Singapore? It's the local government, who both sells them the sand and then blames them to get re-elected. Let's be real Singapore is also tiny with limited space to expand, the rest of the sand is getting sold off elsewhere for other megaprojects that aren't mentioned.

@@dongster529 Well we're small and we don't wanna invade and start wars. So we mine and expand. 😎

@@Raul_Menendez you are from Singapore? Are you a Spanish descent citizen?

@@dongster529 I actually think America is the punching bag of the world. Got a problem? Blame it on their export of democracy, or their control over the financial system, the oil supply, their influence with their allies, or their Hollywood movies. They are ethically different, big enough that they could conceivably be the cause of a lot of problems, but not so big that they can deal with everyone blaming them for every problem all at once.

@Blazingknight considering how ethnically diverse Singapore is, it comes as no surprise 😁

What does that mean?

@@appleslover I think it's basically saying a resource seemingly infinite at one point (like sand) is now beginning to show an exhaustion point as huge parts of the world's population begin scaling up. Investors wouldn't be lining up for your sand business in the desert X amount of years ago but now the idea is on the table.

Or selling ice to the Eskimos of Greenland

@@appleslover I think the idiom is supposed to represent like the pinnacle of an untenable (or perhaps relying on manipulation and deceit for success) business proposition, selling something ubiquitous and free, but the irony is that the kinds of sand used in construction are rough, while desert sand is smooth, so selling river sand to a country full of (desert) sand but lacking in river sand is a good business prospect because of all the construction going on in the gulf states rich from oil and desiring to flaunt their wealth by getting barely paid migrants to build pillars of concrete for them. Irony has to do with a gap in knowledge, in this case it is that whoever came up with the idiom apparently wasn't considering the difference between different kinds of sand and missing that some kinds would be scarce in some places, even places with an abundance of other kinds of sand.

i i think he said it was insane not a saying, thats how I heard it

Was looking for this comment

Unless we can somehow create cement that binds with desert sand.

What if we melt sand into glass and then smash it?

They may yet Mr Frodo

We could probably process desert sand to be good for construction, but it may not be nearly as cheap as sea based sand. Usually when we "run out" of something it is just the easily accessible deposits that are depleted... You can get/make more, just at a higher cost. For instance, through nuclear transmutation you can make gold, but it takes so much energy it's not worth the effort.

*run

There it is...

@@matthewtopping2061 thx

whay tf is that?

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Don't you mean his best

Wait wouldn't he be happy if sand depleted?

@@skysea7785 Depleted isn't enough... Annie wants to *eradicate* the horrible stuff. It gets everywhere.

Naaah. It's his wet dream

That is amazing.

Space is the 5th, less commonly known element. Dont forget space. You could consider that like warfare over land rights, because its 2D space on a 3D spherical surface. Most people would assume the space element strictly means literal space warfare. No its warfare over human rights to use physical space as a resource itself.

Even consciousness is an element in some world traditions, such as Buddhism. A war for consciousness is a scary war indeed. It's not fought with bullets. Culture wars. Soft power. Authoritarian rule. Those are consciousness warfare.

In fact, now that I think about it, you could consider tech giants extracting wealth from the consciousness element, by harvesting user data, sucking up precious user attention and time for profit. Not warfare, until foreign cyber agencies create posts to cause civil unrest or throw elections. Thanks for the initial comment. This has been fun to think about and write.

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Sand Mafia is already seen in India,most of the them are uneducated but powerful and earn millions of dollars by illegal selling of sand for construction activities. They use network to stop getting caught and spend money to even media to hide the news.

@@nochance3914 Exactly... Sand mafia is the most common of all mafias in India. River beds are dying because of them.

no shit...now, of all things, I have to worry about sand mafioso's. wtf?

Common term used by layman in India. Sand mafia is very common here.

I bet they have suits and slicked back hair. When they kill people, do they say they wack a guy.

"The spice must flow!"

The sand melange? The sand must flow?

*spice

@@manofsan Yes, The Sand Must flow, though they are course, rough and irritating.

Desert sand is pretty useless for us unfortunately.

Is that an official mod?

@@jont2576 Nope, it just a compilation of 200-300 mod

Yoooo Kenshi fans? Fuck yea

Thanks for the recommendation is it on nexus mods?

It’s likely possible, the process is likely very costly though.

@@darthjarjar5309 using that logic though - there is a point that usable sand becomes so scarce that it's more expensive than desert sand and likewise technology becomes cheaper over time. I guess my question is more is this even a possibility

Maybe throw it into the water and wait for it to get course again Or build a machine to turn the sand coarse

Not really. You're trying to ungrind sand. Like trying to unerode rock.

Learn to work with lower-quality sand, as you can learn to work with lower-quality people.

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Lol

@Alan he did

I would gladly fish with Caspian Report

@@James-ky3ip So would I ^^

Reading the comment before watching the video was even funnier. 😂😂😂😂

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Step 4) Find a way to hide your profits (i.e. shell companies, offshore accounts). Just don't use AsiaCiti services.

Well.. I guess you could try heat it up, mix it with carbon, sulfur, or whatever (basically simulate natural lava), melt it together, and then break it apart. It probably requires a *LOT* of energy tho. In any case, if we ran out of sand, crushing and grinding down rock into gravel probably makes more sense.

@@ihl0700677525 that's already happening lol. My father works in a company that crushes the stones into small rocks and then that company sells these crushed rocks to other companies that do the job of extracting different minerals like aluminium, gold, silver etc. So I suppose the end products remaining after all the minerals are extracted is just pure sand. Or at least some part of it will be. Tho haven't heard of any company dealing in the business of sand crushed from rocks so there is potential for that in the upcomming years.

there is actually technology being used in the UAE which is able to use desert sand in concrete but needs to be throughly washed etc which makes it a expensive thing to do

@@masterdementer I guess as expensive as it is today, the cost of making finely crushed rock as concrete aggregates is still too expensive. But I know that people definitely did it, in small quantity, in remote area, maybe because bringing in few sacks of sand is not worth it.

Confucius Skywalker 😁

yes thats why he always used nice round sand from the deserts , that dude had wisdom, never use sand from river

@Itznun Yabizness 🤣

Confucius say: "Go to bed with itchy bum.Wake up with smelly finger."

Yeah he was definitely nowhere near as smart as Buddha! How many different rituals for preparing and serving tea? What a tw@t!

Did you think the 'culture' that produced the caste system wouldn't be as corrupt as possible??? :-)

@@chippysteve4524 The west have their own version. It is called class system.

Yes it really is

@@bruceree3902 okkkkkkk buddy

@@bruceree3902 Who do you think is better? Some recommendations would be nice

@@bruceree3902 he is azeri im pretty sure

@@bruceree3902 Thats too bad :/. I was hoping you would have something interesting to share

I cant believe India has a sand Mafia. And its "the most powerful syndicated in the country" "has deep pockets and a political apparatus". What the fuck. India is such a beautiful and tragic country.

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No Dude This A Real Thing, In Indonesia We Already Have A Couple Journalist,Activist And Even Concerns Citizens Who Live Next To The Mine Die Beaten To Death By The Sand Miner's

*all the film students actually go out and tries to make a film of sand drying.*

no way hes horrible, im only here for the good content

Civilization games will never be the same again once this is modded in.

I'm not a construction guy, but don't they just mill stone and use it for mixing with cement to make concrete and whatever?

Same thing, but I only discovered this recently. Subbed and ready to binge.

I'm waiting for China or some country in Africa or thr Middle East to start dumping dessert sand in the ocean to punk out other countries.

@@Extremeredfox somebody needs to mod that too in Civ.

What is your field?

@@t.miller8456 Energy transition. Solar panels are also built from silicon, which is why I asked.

Unfortunately, the demand for sands will easily outpace any reasonable recycling effort. We just build more every year.

By crisis they mean sand will no longer be effectively "free", just like how corpos have been trying to privatize water for decades to raise prices for profit. I wonder how much of this is manufactured scarcity and how much is just overexploitation of common resources.

I read a research article awhile back where some builder was on due shortage of sand and they used incinerated garbage sludge to make concrete. It's much more stronger than traditional sand concrete. It utilizes almost 90 percent of total sludge. The only problem is the production and supply cost.

I'll fight you just for saying that

And here I sit, just wanting to chop down a couple trees, plant some new ones, use the logs to build a house somewhere, grow my own crops and hunt game. But no one will ever get this oppotunity ever again under a corrupt, world-wide capitalist system.

@@ItzCoopzFtw Ancient and feudal societies would have made industrialism work, with their repair based economy, making only that which is useful, reusing resources and working towards the improvement of family and community. Unfortunately we got industrialism at a time when everyone was thinking of maximizing profits or maximally redistributing it.

The worst part is when there’s enough resources but because some group believe in a god that’s slightly different from the other they start a war and kill 30million people

Been that was since the beginning of human civilization

Genius

Tin, copper, enslaving people, land, sugar, tea, coal, iron, Pokemon TCG booster packs, etc... Shit man, what things haven't we've fought/ killed each other over?

Sucks I liked to go to the beach and look at all the hot bodies modern times just gets worse!

@@IammeoramI you forgot to add digital assets like bitcoin, nfts, etc

I heard the same 30 year ago about oil..... so i guess sand is the new shortage 🙀

@@Buddie21341255612351 ummm, we ARE running short of oil... you need to start reading stuff that's more current...

Wouldn't problem just stack on top of each other?

@@skysea7785 If the tech of desalination plants using solar energy comes to us before the water wars start, then no.

@@adriancampos8640 I think It'd be kind of impossible to use desalination when the water wars are happening in central Asia, no?

@@juch3 There were just border conflicts, right?

Often when a large airport runway is replaced the existing concrete runway is dug up, crushed and reused.

@@mitseraffej5812 doable, but it also doesn't have the same structural qualities so the 'new' product cannot be used for heavy loads like skyscrapers.

@@electrosyzygy Skyscrapers are sort of useless anyway. They have a lot of social, economic & environmental drawbacks and they shouldn't be built. Instead, transportation infrastructures should be developed.

@@shahriararifaunik yeah... and suburbs have been sooo effective...

@@KrisWustrow when done right, doesn’t need to be a suburb regardless.

CarpianReport

It's especially funny since Shirvan introduces the sponsor in his usual contemplative, refined tone lol

It's especially funny since Shirvan introduces the sponsor in his usual contemplative, refined tone lol

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U and me both, brudda! I literally refused to watch this video for 2 days because it sounded so ridiculous but I trust this channel, so finally decided to watch it and it pissed me off just how much I don't know. All I could think of was that clip from the Simpsons, where the kids are bored watching a video about sand and thinking, "that was a joke video, right?" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d6-DorGK3cvFoaM.html

They already ‘mine’ gas from landfills.

@M G if it becomes. also automation is a big factor in these things,

Well given enough time, the rubbish would compress back into reuseable minerals, but that's going to take millions of years.

We won't make it that far

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Lol no one fight over sand in the sahara and actually no one like in the sahara

Loool

Lucky for them, they do have the right kind of sand.

@@tobyc8668 I'm sure they'll find a process to fix the shortcoming of desert sand once it becomes really scarce.

@@roudy879 would've happened already, most the stuff he talked about happened over a decade ago

Sahara is bigger though ..

Wow, that's interesting. Also volcanoes makes land very fertile. It's ironic how a dangerous thing can also make us wealthier

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Many journalists had died because they tried to expose the sand mafias.

Damn that's crazy I didn't even know what sand was before this video.

@skippy62able v that actually happens in India, Bangledesh and Vietnam.

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@@aratirao9007 no thanks.

Now with the youngling slayer 3000

*The Darkside Strong with this one*

The suspect is connected to a string of homicides that occured in the village last week. The attack claimed the life of every single one of the residents. And not just the men, but the women and the children too. The suspect has made many racist statements against the inhabitants of the village, calling the animals and comparing the gruesome scene to the careless slaughtering of animals. He has reportedly confessed to this crime to his girlfriend, however she could not be located at this time.

thanks i guess

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Have you heard about the 500 fleet of Squid Robbers? Sailing the seas? And I'm not talking about BOATS!

It might be possible to artificially make them rough , but just like desalination, it is likely a very expensive process.

It is easier to make new sand from rock via crushing. There are a couple cases where the Chinese have done this next to megaprojects (see the highest bridge in the world as an example) but it is expensive and the results are not really in in terms of how well the stuff lasts in the medium to long term.

China must be stopped

@@overdose8329 what about west which plundered worlds resources to advance itself and now lecturing developing countries .

@@anirudhmitra4232 We can't change the past, only the present. And at present china gobbles up a lot of resources, but then again it's population is double all of Europe and the USA combined.

@@anirudhmitra4232 China’s using all that concrete to build shit buildings that collapse within a few years solely to artificially boost up GDP and its house of cards housing market. China is wasting it all. China uses more concrete than the developed world combined on utter crap

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Rethink in what way? We lucked out with fossil fuels in the sense that we happen to have developed newer, cleaner energy sources right around the time we're realizing we can't keep burning dinosaur juice. Now one could argue we developed these things specifically because of the problems with fossil fuels but that's only partly accurate. The photoelectric effect for example (which underlies solar panels) was described by Einstein. If he'd come around even 20 or 30 years later, there's a good chance solar would still be in its very early and very expensive stages of development today. We'd still have wind (turbines have existed for ages and "put one in a windmill" isn't a huge conceptual leap) but its doubtful we could harness enough wind to compensate in a solar-less world. And when it comes to concrete.. we're in that situation. We don't really have any alternative building material that can do what concrete does at this point. There are people working on less resource-intensive concrete formulations (though they're mostly focusing on CO2 emissions rather than sand usage), wood-based composites and of course carbon fiber composites are continually improving. But they're all kind of in the "if Einstein was 30 years later" situation - just barely getting started and still very expensive. And no, "just live like our ancestors" is not a solution. They had to deal with a planet containing a few million people. We've got a few billion. A few billion who don't really want to go back to a time of limited local resources, limited options for importing resources and just a poorer quality of life in general. Reminds me of a documentary I saw a long time ago about some tribe in the Amazon (wish I could remember but way too much time passed). Just going through their daily lives and what they thought of the "outside" world and normal almost carnival-style displays of "boy aren't they different!" But the part that stuck with me was right at the end when the film concluded with something like (paraphrasing): "These 200 people in their 200 square miles of land live in perfect harmony with nature. Maybe we can learn to do the same!" Sure. And just where are we going to find 7.5 billion square miles of land that's as capable of providing for life as the deepest parts of the Amazon? The entire surface of the earth is less than 200 million square miles. We'd need 38 entire earths just for the area alone, never mind the ability to provide. That tribe is able to live like that specifically because they're small in number and have a large area to work with. The rest of the world's population isn't so lucky. I know that's all rather pessimistic and we obviously will need to come up with some replacement for concrete (or find cheaper ways to crush up rocks - we _can_ make the right kind of sand, its just insanely expensive relative to dredging). But its far too often I see people telling us to "re-think our relationship to the planet" without realizing that the only thing we really can "re-think" is how to drop our population by 1-2 orders of magnitude. And that's not really the kind of "re-thinking" most people want to talk about since its you know.. absolutely grotesque to even contemplate. Aside from large-scale genocide, it doesn't really matter what resources we use - they're all finite. Some are more finite than others of course, but the only thing that's truly limitless (or close enough to it to matter) is solar energy. Everything else humanity has access to is bound within the volume of the planet - including the materials needed to harness that solar energy. So no matter what we eventually replace sand with it will also run out sooner or later. Sure trees regrow but not anywhere close fast enough to keep up with our building demands if we tried to replace concrete with some sort of wood-based product, and there's only so much natural forest around the world to cut down (to say nothing about the ecological and environmental catastrophe we'd cause by doing so). Crushing rocks is probably our best bet. As long as we only care more about the shape of the sand than its exact mineral composition, there's lots of rock to be found everywhere on earth. So if we can crush it the "right way" cheap enough, that might be our answer - but its not really "re-thinking" anything.. its just doing the same thing in a slightly different way (and creates a new problem - no matter how cheap you can make the process its still going to require a good amount of energy.. reinforcing our existing energy crisis if we haven't managed to solve it by the time sand becomes the new problem).

@@altrag You obviously spent some time and thought in replying so I wanna do the same - will get back to you with a response later!

There isn't anything to rethink, it's just how life is. Or would you rather prefer if man if just lived in caves and mud huts for the rest of his existence?

@@NexusWarior211 I will post a longer reply here later, but it is a false dichotomy to say that our choices are a) just keep doing everything as we are or b) go back to being hunter-gatherers. As if there is nothing in between these.

@@altrag I appreciate your long thought-out comment

In the sand, but not over it.

It's amazing no one seems to realise this. Everyone just thinks the status quo will continue.

@@samuelsmith2707 yeah there's a massive amount of cognitive dissonance, almost like its just too big a problem to accept it exists. I've felt it myself truthfully; that sense of "oh wow this is bad, we need to do something ... but something that means I still get my easy lifestyle of course ..." The next 50 years are going to be ... interesting

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We would rename the moon tatooine

Musk is overrated

shipping from the moon might not even be that expensive thanks to the low escape velocity needed, but the moon is a harsh mistress.

if we are going to use moon stuff for anything its building infrastructure in space.

im max sand dollar; and ive just invented a very tiny pickaxe i call a "needle" that can be used to chisel grooves into sand making it the right kind of sand i just need 500,000 ethopian children and 1 magnifying glass they can all share

It would just be more expensive

That's very energy intensive

@@cuddlemuffin.9545 There are already power plants that use reflective mirrors to concentrate the sun's energy into intense beams that are capable of melting anything. Those plants can be purpose built to melt desert sand for minimal cost

No need. Just mine the rocks in the mountains and crush them.

@@alterego157 fuck yeah, this is what they do now in lots of countries.

just give all men in prisons across the world the task of splitting sand , they have the time , also great punishment

Lmao they know it probably, just got money to shut up

@@andrerothweiler9191 Well... only very few police officers that cooperated with him...

just dumping it will make it mix with water increasing water pollution.

Or we stop progressing majorly through concrete buildings and streets

@@florianfelix8295 or the Chinese stop building massive ghost cities who’s buildings are in utter disrepair within 5 years

@@florianfelix8295 One idea would be to refurbish old buildings instead of tearing them down and building new ones. The worlds population growth is slowing and will eventually start to contract. China, Japan, Korea, Europe in general, and Canada are examples of shrinking populations in the not to distant future. This will reduce demand for new housing. Material costs, such as concrete, will also price new buildings out of reach for most people.

Lol funny

Damn, I'm glad I'm not included.

It isn't. For whatever reason he doesn't seem to know you can make sand by grinding rocks. That has been the only source of sand where I live for anything that was built in the past 70-80 years.

@@alterego157 Thereby, causing a future “Rock Shortage”... The only answer is to stop breeding until we have solutions or less CONSUMERS consuming toward no end goal.

@@squirrelguirrel7010 Doom and gloom hysteria is getting the better of you. Population naturally stabilizes. Most of the developed world already has a negative birth rate. The end goal is civilization moving up on Kardashev scale. This planet has an expiration date even if we all go back to caves and reduce population to a few millions. Your way is a dead end.

@@alterego157 it's obviously much more expensive, not economically viable