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 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.