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818: Matt Simon | How Microplastics Poison the Planet

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Importance of Sand on the Earth

Vince Beiser: Sand is the most important solid substance on Earth. We use about 50 billion tons of sand every year, enough to cover California in concrete. An individual grain of sand can be millions of years old. There are even sand mafias killing people over sand. Without sand, there's no modern civilization.

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