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After more than a century of fighting sea erosion by massively dumping granite boulders along the beaches of southern Kerala state, environmentalists and administrators are beginning to see that this has been a costly and ineffective solution.
Hills are vanishing as vast pits are gouged out to extract granite illegally in India’s prime tourism state.
Since 1890 when granite blocks were first used to construct roughly a mile-long (1.5km) sea wall near the pilgrim town of Varkala, entire hills have vanished and vast pits gouged out to extract a mineral that is also in high demand by the construction industry…
