Sand Wars

It was surprising for me to watch this, as I would not have expected a basic, apparently ubiquitous, and cheap commodity (and I am not even sure sand can be considered a commodity) to be bought and sold internationally, and even trafficked.

This was extremely shocking as buildings are a basic feature of our modern life and the average person - no: most people - would not imagine that building a shining office development somewhere might destroy ecosystems or even the homes or livelihoods of people halfway around the world. This kind of problems are never mentioned as the details of how our world works are hidden as technicalities (no, I don't mean to say there is some dark conspiracy... I could have found out the truth about how the building industry works with a 5 minute search on google... it's just people are a- not really interested in knowing how things work b- flooded with useless or meaningless information: meaning, it is ultimately our collective fault bad things happen).

But well about the documentary. It is quite deep and tries to explain what is happening from many different points of view. The scenes are shocking, but well photographed.

It was quite good, if a little depressing, to know a bit more about this subject.

This was an extremely interesting subject. I live on the west coast of Canada and I had no idea that sand was so vulnerable.

We need to make everyone aware of this matter so that we can start to protect the earth from the effects of over mining the sand. I am in shock that the situation has got to this point with the governments keeping it so quiet.

Keep up the good work by making this film available to as many viewers as possible. The subject deserves all the attention you can give it.

There seems to be a blind spot as to the consequences that depletion of this very valuable material will have on earth. Not to mention the small islands that cannot support life after the affects