Trump and Pompeo Trolling Iran, Pakistan Elections, “A World Without”: Global Sand Crisis

By Worldview Staff
INSIDE THE SALT MINES
In this Jan. 27, 2017 photo, American Rock Salt Co. loaders work a road salt pile at the mine in Hampton Corners, N.Y. Deep below upstate New York’s farm country, workers in ghostly tunnels are praying for snow. Fiercer winters mean better business, longer hours and fatter paychecks at what’s billed as the nation’s most productive salt mine, which ships trainloads of snow-melting road salt to municipalities across the Northeast. Jeffrey T. Barnes / AP Photo
In this Jan. 27, 2017 photo, American Rock Salt Co. loaders work a road salt pile at the mine in Hampton Corners, N.Y. Deep below upstate New York’s farm country, workers in ghostly tunnels are praying for snow. Fiercer winters mean better business, longer hours and fatter paychecks at what’s billed as the nation’s most productive salt mine, which ships trainloads of snow-melting road salt to municipalities across the Northeast. Jeffrey T. Barnes / AP Photo
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INSIDE THE SALT MINES
In this Jan. 27, 2017 photo, American Rock Salt Co. loaders work a road salt pile at the mine in Hampton Corners, N.Y. Deep below upstate New York’s farm country, workers in ghostly tunnels are praying for snow. Fiercer winters mean better business, longer hours and fatter paychecks at what’s billed as the nation’s most productive salt mine, which ships trainloads of snow-melting road salt to municipalities across the Northeast. Jeffrey T. Barnes / AP Photo
In this Jan. 27, 2017 photo, American Rock Salt Co. loaders work a road salt pile at the mine in Hampton Corners, N.Y. Deep below upstate New York’s farm country, workers in ghostly tunnels are praying for snow. Fiercer winters mean better business, longer hours and fatter paychecks at what’s billed as the nation’s most productive salt mine, which ships trainloads of snow-melting road salt to municipalities across the Northeast. Jeffrey T. Barnes / AP Photo
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Trump and Pompeo Trolling Iran, Pakistan Elections, “A World Without”: Global Sand Crisis

By Worldview Staff
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On Today’s Show:

  • On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, made hawkish statements aimed at Iran’s leadership at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. We’ll discuss the row between the US and Iran with historian Mateo Farzeneh, an associate professor of history and inaugural principal of The Mossadegh Initiative at Northeastern Illinois University-Chicago.
  • Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, resigned last week after the country’s Supreme Court ruled him unfit for office.To discuss Pakistan’s political future, we’re joined by Aqil Shah, an assistant professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Oklahoma and non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s South Asia program.
  • Many of us think of sand as an infinitely bountiful mineral. However, the things we use sand for the most, like concrete, glass, electronics, and roads, require a specific type of sand that is more and more in demand.To discuss the global sand shortage, we’re joined by Jodi Brandt, assistant professor of Human Environment Systems at Boise State University.