No One Ever Really Thinks About This

Sand was probably stolen by bricks and minifigs

Our world is dead ass becoming Thneedville from the Lorax

What Minecraft Has ever taught me was that if you had any building project in mind, you had to say goodbye to your local beach to get glass

I'm from Maldives. It's a relatively small island country, and we barely have any sand to begin with. Despite the fact, we still have people stealing sand on our islands. Thank you for bringing light to this issue.

The “special sand” is silica sand, silica is used in A LOT of stuff to the point it’s probably quicker to name the instances in which silica isn’t used industrially and commercially

MINIONS, tonight we steal... the beach!

Historian here, This is the same issue of history repeating itself. The settlers coming to the East Coast from England literally said "we have endless woods here! You can not cut down all this wood" and now 400 years later, we don't have an old growth forest on the East Coast anymore. It's a real problem because so many people just take and take without letting nature replenish

The Sandman has been real quiet since this dropped

If I knew how valuable sand was I wouldn’t have eaten as much as a kid

I am a environmental biologist from north Jersey, I have paired on erosion prevention projects in the area where they dredge. The army corp marine engineers each year dredge millions of lbs of sand each year to replenish our receding shorelines. Instead of tackling the issue of our depleting dunes or over development on coastlines that is heavily speeding up this erosion, they just spend millions each year to move and dump sand. It’s a temporary fix to a long term problem that threatens so much infrastructure and habitat