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French tourists face jail term for stealing sand (bbc.com)
3 points by mmhsieh on Jan 23, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This kind of law should be the norm. We are transitioning into an era where more people have more leisure time and many of these people will choose to travel. Imagine if every tourist decides to take 90 pounds of local resources. In time the area would lose all that makes it attractive to visit.

What irritates me is that all that sand would have eventually ended up in some trash dump doing no good to anyone.




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