How Sand Mining Destroys One Home to Build Another | Short Film Showcase
How Sand Mining Destroys One Home to Build Another | Short Film Showcase
As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangroves one woman is faced with the erasure of her beloved home.
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The mangrove forests of Cambodia stretch for miles and miles, carving out small islands, narrow waterways and channels, and ecologically diverse estuaries. However, sand dredging on the mangroves is impacting the people who live and thrive in these forests as well as the oceans surrounding them.
For over a decade, the government of Cambodia has granted several private companies concessions to mine these mangrove forests for sand. Each year, millions of metric tons of sand are shipped to Singapore to enlarge this island nation’s land mass, while Cambodia destroys its only natural protection against erosion, rising sea levels, tsunamis, and hurricanes and lays waste to a vital and fragile ecosystem that thousands of families depend on for their livelihood.
Phalla Vy, a young Cambodian islander, bears witness to the destruction of her home in this short from filmmaker Kalyanee Mam co-produced by Emergence Magazine and Go Project Films.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/lost-world/
https://goprojectfilms.com/films/lost-world/
Read more in “Sand mining threatens ways of life, from Cambodia to Nigeria”
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Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the entire world. They have a life expectancy of 67 years and over 2 million of their population is in poverty.
Singapore paid Cambodia millions of dollars to buy mere sand. Millions of dollars that entered into their economy and benefited the lives of many Cambodians.
The overall good that the money did to Cambodians was far greater than the harm it caused.
Good job environmental activists. Your naive ideals prevented poor families from getting a much needed source of income.
This tugs at my heartstrings. Greed and the greed of money is the root of all evil.
Pay attention to the back slogan(1:17-1:19 ), you will understand a lot..
A bit dramatic, but I get the point.
Improvised…Explosive…Device
Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes & ailing environment?
She really seemed to like Singapore tho haha
Wow this is deep.
thank you so much indeed
I didnt know its problem at all but I know what I should do or think about humans development which is based on ecology collapse.
A very poetic lady and documentary – I had no idea Singapore was built on sand from Cambodia. When she said people without their own land are like refugees it makes me wonder what we are doing to ourselves as globalised citizens who dont feel attached to any one place in particular….- let alone to people like her who are living localised community based and ecologically sound lives that are slowly being destroyed. We need to learn from people like her.
Her kids should have accompanied her to Hong Kong…😏
Thank you for this amazing documentary. I am working in the Circular Economy and this documentary again reminded me how important energy-efficient and circular buildings are but also how we need to use waste and renewable resources as green building materials.
The same thing is done in Canada and the United States
She could be a great writer. love the documentary.
The US is the inspiration to the world – taking all natural resources from indigenous peoples for profit until the whole world is one big fake plastic shopping mall ful of fake people with mundane dreams totally disconnected from the planet that we came from.
so sad 😢
what gives them the right to take this sand? Does the company mining this sand own the river? It kills be to see animals lose habitat, the only habitat they have. Then to see humans treated the same way. It’s wrong, no one is so important that they can act without regard for the lives of others.
mining sand is cool
They should just get the sand from the Sahara
Observe how capitalism dispossesses and marginalizes those it purports to help. If these themes upset you, read the works of Vandana Shiva.
You have made video and i watched and shown concerned ; felt bad 😔😔
Is something else can happen
Are we people going to raise voice ??????????????????????????………….. thousand question but no answer
Please stop Singapore…
A really touching and sad documentary, it gets me when she says "this land is from my country"
singapore : Thanks to camboja, now we have larger land
camboka : …..
Land is natural heritage — you shouldn’t be able to buy or sell it, especially exporting it to other countries. Every person who lives there has a stake in every gram of earth.
Economic growth always has sustainable option but greedy people break rules for maximising there profit.
Sometimes too much development is leads to many prbs. This is one example.
I can see really rich vs poor country😪😪😪
How can’t this be illegal?
Pay attention to the movie : Avatar, it explains a lot.
Selling sand is a lesser evil as compared to selling their kids for prostitution
Thankfully Karl Marx isn’t alive to see what capitalism has made human do!!!
Singaporeans are pragmatic, practical and honest. So no worries. Environmentalists are quick to draw on sentimental heartstrings without offering practical alternatives. The river will replace the sand that has been extracted within a few monsoon seasons with alluvial deposition from the hinterland. And Cambodia can continue to generate much higher revenue for the sand than the crabs, and shellfish can ever offer.
Use violence to solve this problem
Always proud of nat geo for bringing these issues to the public.
Suppose, Nat geo wanted to do some documentaries on India’s issues they will have to do at least 1000 documentaries.
Lady said my name
Whining about country selling sand while they harvest up all the animals with no study or conservation concerns
all fueled by greed smh!
Development just a zero sum game some one has to pay for someone’s luxury
Our poor planet, what have we done to our one and only planet
Sand Facility cannot remain on the outside of development
A global building boom is driving a high demand for sand, and some of it is getting sourced from sensitive river systems that people rely on for traditional uses like fishing. To learn more, read on here: https://on.natgeo.com/2vkNOQq
Keep fighting for your land brothers and sisters . . If you dont no one will
and that’s why i don’t like sand because it’s irritating and gets everywhere in the streets
this is really sad because we know that we cannot do anything in this cause
If indonasia keep’s touching my country thise going to be war cuz we allready gave them half of our country PNG shame on them👎👎👎👎👎
Shes kinda cute
the accent is lk khasi
the singapore is progressing while cambodia is falling, ohh what a cruel world
Raw material development to start business