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NNadir

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6. Diamond's book is without a doubt the best environmental book I have ever read.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:14 PM

Nov 2013

It should be required reading in either high schools or colleges and universities, but it won't be.

I think about that book all the time.

There is a modern day Easter Island taking place right now, the island nation-state of Nauru, which was strip mined for its phosphate reserves, but now has no industry or means of support other than functioning as a prison for illegal refugees trying to make their way to Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru

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