Around six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world’s oceans every year, a new report says.
“The UNEP recommended that sand dredging should also be banned from beaches to protect coastal resilience and economies.”
Gotta love how capitalism can’t save itself.
Maybe if they dredge deep enough they can keep sea level rise in check. 😐
Yeah and they haven’t even started collecting nodules
Why tho?
Not the sand part, the ocean part. Weight is usually a major factor in large scale resource industries like this, why on earth would they want wet sand? Plus thats gotta be more expensive property to buy the rights to.
Man, sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh at the absolute horror of being alive.
We as a species are so, so, so fucked.
Everyday I discover some new way corporations are destroying our lives on this planet all for a monterrey system we made up.
We’re in a very tough spot. There are more humans alive today than have ever died. We want to keep everyone alive for obvious reasons and that means we’re going through resources fast. All the solutions are not pleasant. We need to choose a path:
1.live a more austere life and cut down on luxuries drastically for everyone. 2. Use the government to limit childbirth
Both are extremely unpleasant, but it’s going to need to happen or else nature will force both options in us and also add massive amounts of death.
@Fredselfish @dingus what particular nuance of late stage capitalism has you depressed today?
monetary*
Yeah it’s like every time you turn around there’s a dozen more articles on how we are actively wrecking the shit out of our planet.
I’m kind of at the point where I just assume 99% of humanity is going to die off at some point (might even live to see it whee).
And, hopefully, humanity will never be able to reconstruct modern society because we’ve used up all the easily discoverable resources.
We’ll just be stuck in the iron, bronze or probably stone age until rats evolve and destroy us in a million years.
It’s all good if you believe your next life in your new world is all pure bliss or some shit.
