Nauru one of global capitalism's 'sacrifice sites'

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aomi Klein laments the fact that Nauru is one of global capitalism’s “sacrifice sites”.

The Canadian author and activist, discusses Nauru’s fate in her new book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Versus the Climate”

She writes: “Few places on earth embody the suicidal results of building our economics on polluting extraction mare graphically than Nauru. Thanks to mining of phosphate. Nauru he spent the last century disappearing from the inside out; now thanks to fossil fuels, it is disappearing from the inside in”.

And in the Melbourne Age tells more about Nauru’s troubles in its story – “UN's Nauru verdict: A poor, isolated island ravaged by phosphate mining.”