Unending profiteering possibilities remains the “great financial asset” for millionaires / billionaires funding elections in many so-called mutating democracies, fueling the vicious capital cycles! How do we manage their “hoarding concept” that human growth mandates destructive greed and spreading white lies via anti-social / AI media to divide and rule? What do houses, streets, phones and microchips have in common? They all contain processed sand. The Developing South Asian and African countries are raising the alarm because of their disappearing beaches, greens, mountains, city blue skies and river beds.

Like wealthy election-sponsoring dons in many other areas, the sand mafia is emboldened by political support, within few km of any construction site, there is likely to be daring mining going on along river banks, forests and coastal areas. The development-hungry construction industry uses river bed sand to mix with concrete and for making bricks, as construction is now contributing more than 10% to gross domestic product. It’s a network of quick buck-making industries with very little investment. All you need is few trucks, laborers, drivers, goons and a place to go and mine, a cut for police (smart cronies and their neta agents) keeps them happy as ever.

The coasts of Ghana and Kenya, as well as those of Cape Verde and Zanzibar, are lined by picturesque beaches strewn with the finest sand making them perfect postcard idylls. But what if Africa’s dream beaches suddenly lost their sand and only had dirt and gravel to offer?

Many attacks are perpetrated by these party affiliated mafia, activists and few remaining honest Govt officers have been threatened, attacked and killed all over. A short term trick or jugaad is to find some environment friendly substitutes for sand, until then, expect illegal mining to continue, whether followed by puppets in mainstream modia or not. In longer term, a culture of hating quick buck making messiahs and hyper populists will bring real change.

Zanzibar has less and less sand due to excessive use of sand for construction projects in the semi-autonomous archipelago that forms part of Tanzania. Official statistics from the Department of Forestry and Non-Renewable Natural Resources show that almost 5 million tons of sand were mined on Zanzibar between 2005 and 2018. This amount equals around 200,000 full truckloads and bucks for the “mafia of development विश्वगुरु / विश्वचेला”!

These are only official mining records. Unofficial numbers could be many times. Liberal Mining Permits by anti-Liberal loot wing elite: Big businesses, election contractors, loose regulation, silencing activists via smart labeling and deep state’s managed propaganda, slavery narratives, bribing all.. छत्रपति भोज, भक्त की मौज, धर्म और कर्म है बोझ, प्रजा एक खोज, विसर्जित न्यायराज, चरणशृंगरहित नटराज ||

It is not only cement works which profit from exploitation of sand. One of the main customers for African sand is desert of Dubai, which wants to enlarge its coast. For a fancy island project “The Palm Jumeirah” alone, 200 million cubic meters of sand and stone were used. Some of the sand was taken from local sea coast but a large amount came from African beaches.

Deep-Space and Deep-Sea Mining Could Begin Soon, regulated or whatever the heck.. Mining the seafloor could boost global production of clean energy technology (???) – and destroy the oceans in the process. Big machines would scrape the seafloor, scooping up nodules while kicking up clouds of sediment / iceberg potentially damaging the deep and polar seas on a vast scale by removing habitat / species and altering ecosystems. But capitalists have better gujju-type imperial ideas.. Instead of studying and learning, let’s tear and bulldoze the seafloors and spaces apart in order to make money, lots and lots of money, for X trillions GDP targets, towards economic supremacy of our sponsoring greedy folks and licking support systems while smartly covering-up the apparent future consequences via tech hallucinations and AI Kill threats!

We are now as a society smart enough to know the future, but not prudent enough to act upon the knowledge. Just storing / staring live AI data like porn via easy analytic dashboards / displays / gadgets!