Ep. 5 - sand
This week on Them Their Hills, we dive into the secret life of sand, yes, sand. Bax (and Baby Isabel) join me to unpack how this “ordinary” stuff is actually a finite, fiercely contested critical material behind concrete, phones, fake resort beaches, and even experimental sand batteries.
We bounce from Greek philosophers to the illegal sand trade, from why desert sand is not as useful coastal sand, plus: EU mineral stockpiling, a ghostly old mega-mine off the Denali Highway, and the earth keeping her best secrets buried.
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