Nauru: Environmental Apocalypse in the World’s Smallest Republic

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Source/Further reading:
Britannica, overview: www.britannica.com/place/Naur...
MIT Press Reader, the dark history of Nauru: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/da...
Guardian, a Short History of Nauru: www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Guardian, Nauru’s Cursed History: www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Nauru civil war: militaryhistorynow.com/2013/0...
Nauru under Japanese occupation: apjjf.org/-Yuki-Tanaka/3441/a...
Nauruan Independence: www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/...
www.rnz.co.nz/collections/u/n...
Nauru’s musical: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...
www.abc.net.au/radionational/...
Refugees: www.theguardian.com/australia...
www.refugeecouncil.org.au/ope...
Keeping the offshore facilities open: www.theguardian.com/australia...
Deep sea mining:  www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Nauru and deep sea mining: www.hakaimagazine.com/news/wh...

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@geographicstravel 2 года назад

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@poorlydunbarvideos1472 2 года назад

Are ya congested? Sound a bit nasally...have you considered rest?

@ziimoyake260 2 года назад

Where’s the link to the new channel?

@--enyo-- 2 года назад

I’m Australian. As soon as the ‘Abyss’ chapter came up I knew what was coming. Gods I hate our government sometimes. Or most of the time. It’s f*cking shameful. Thank you for this video.

@GAndreC 2 года назад

Why not bring in topsoil from new guine or Australia though?

@teoleno4019 Год назад

Can we please stop saying "the arrival of Europeans", it was the Anglo Saxons who destroyed this island and many other countries!

@MBrainspaz 2 года назад

Man I love this info-dump channel. It’s like blending up a dozen wiki articles and pouring them directly into my brain-with a charming voice!

@stevencooke6451 2 года назад

I do like his voice.

@jasonwright1687 2 года назад

Except Simon actually uses sources (not just opinion articles that are written for the sole purpose of providing content for a yet-to-be-written article).....

@MadGunny 2 года назад

@@jasonwright1687 I just read the Wikipedia article on Nauru and it was pretty spot on with this video with its information and timeline.

@nunyabiznesse6917 2 года назад

UwU

@arthas640 11 месяцев назад

@@MadGunny Wikipedia is generally really good with their sources. The days when some random dumbass wrote whole articles is thankfully almost entirely in the past. Just thumbing through the sources on Wikipedia and I see a government office in Nauru, the CIA, the US State Department, and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs as the first few sources.

@stephaniemaloney4324 2 года назад

Soon, ALL RU-vid channels will be hosted by Simon.

@beingexemplary06 2 года назад

@cheebsgod 2 года назад

This is vsauce, Simon here

@NiSM0pt 2 года назад

Still waiting for Simon Tech Tips

@Arirezz 2 года назад

*SOON*

@timmy2shoez 2 года назад

I'm about it

@poiwytlee 10 месяцев назад

A close friend of mine was born on Nauru in the 70s. He was really lucky to have been born close enough to those local elites who mined the phosphate to afford to send him to boarding school and to get an international pilots liscense. I'm not sure exactly how it all works but it makes it so he has a unique ability to go a whole lot of places in the world. He currently works in dispact and pilot support for a small international shipping company he's worked for for 25 years. On his days off, he often helps with shipping fresh food and water and basic living and medical supplies into Nauru. He's fascinating, so intelligent, and considers himself lucky to have had the opportunity to leave that he did. He says that to be an international pilot for a lot of Nauraun boys is like how being a Dr is a huge aspiration for a lot of American kids...because one you can leave and two, you can actually (literally) bring home the produce to put on your kitchen table. He has a huge family there (no kids of his own on Nauru). When he brings shipments in just for his family, he accounts for something like 50-100+ people. And he's one of the few people in his family, let alone local community, who are employed and makes reasonable enough currency to feed anyone. It's so fucked up.

@masterchinese28 2 года назад

The cautionary tale of Nauru has long fascinated me. Glad to see it get the Simon treatment.

@Kay_S_1499_CODM 2 года назад

Hi there I'm from the island 👋👋and I just want to say thank you for shearing the good and the bad things that happened to my small island home [LOVE FORM NAURU] ❤️😁

@Hughj87 2 года назад

This is very interesting, my Father grew up on the island and he told me all the amazing and wonderful times he had, when he was old enough he was shipped to a boarding school in New Zealand, and he never returned.

@Hughj87 2 года назад

@@boringbastard4920 well im not so thanks for the reply

@alecblunden8615 2 года назад

@@boringbastard4920 You certainly live up the tag.

@yvettemoore1228 2 года назад

@@boringbastard4920 what a bizarre comment! We’re you born there too? How could you know what the OC said isn’t true? 🤔

@boringbastard4920 2 года назад

@@yvettemoore1228 forget about it

@sknkwrksowner 2 года назад

Curious (after watching the video), was he like most kids are and 'oblivious' to the adult nature of conditions overall? I'm assuming your grandparents moved there from elsewhere for work, no? I honestly had never heard of the place until the video (thought it was going to be an island in the Marshall Islands chain).

@alexkay3448 2 года назад

Nauru's near neighbour, Banaba (which is part of Kiribati) was even more brutally destroyed by phosphate mining. It also suffered severely under Japanese occupation in WWII. Most of the island's inhabitants were evacuated before the Japanese reached them, but 200 remained. On August 20th 1945, the Japanese massacred all but one. After the war, phosphate mining had left the island so uninhabitable that the British moved almost the entire population to an island in Fiji, where most stay today, forcibly disconnected from their ancestral homeland of thousands of years. The population of Banaba went from 2706 in 1963 to just 46 in 1985. Some Banabians have travelled back since then, and the population sits around 300 today, in the three small villages that are still habitable - but only surviving off of imported food and water. Banaba and Nauru, like many Pacific islands, also risk destruction from climate change and rising sea levels. The populations of both islands live entirely in the thin zone of life around the edges, right up against the sea.

@akextremerickert 2 года назад

Wow crazy

@user-yv2cz8oj1k 2 года назад

We'd best strip mine them bare before they sink then! (sarcasm on western attitudes)

@DanielS-zq2rr Год назад

They will become climate change refugees

@sladeb6036 Год назад

I was with you till the climate change. The worlds climate has always been changing and always will be. It's a power grab.

@arthas640 11 месяцев назад

Being disconnected from their homeland is if anything preferable. Those islands used to have very, VERY small populations since without modern technology they cant get enough water or food. Some islands like that may get 2 inches of rain per month, even without the strip mining they have almost no arable land, and global fish stocks have been declining so they have very little ability to feed themselves, even before modern times those islands struggled to get enough food and water to sustain a small population. Meanwhile modern technology has lead to population booms: Nauru for example had a steady but low population of under 2000, but exploded up to 10,000 in a few decades which is well beyond what they could sustain on the island. That means tons of expensive food imports and desalination equipment as well as careful rationing, not a big deal for islands like Fiji with plenty of tourism, exportable and renewable natural resources, and some ability for local food production but for tiny flat island like Nauru or Banaba they simply cant sustain their population. If they remained on the island they'd just be dirt poor, largely unemployed, and reliant on food aid or some other form of subsidy.

@ignitionfrn2223 2 года назад

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Pleasant island 5:15 - Chapter 2 - My war 8:25 - Mid roll ads 10:00 - Chapter 3 - Age of empires 13:50 - Chapter 4 - The age of excess 17:20 - Chapter 5 - Decline & fall 20:50 - Chapter 6 - Abyss

@dapperden4129 2 года назад

Thank you.

@FatBlockOfHash 2 года назад

This comment doesn't have enough like imo...

@BugnBuddysMom 2 года назад

I cannot be the only person who watches Simon's channels and then goes on research benders. My family still curses the day I watched a Biographics video on Lavrentiy Beria... Now to plan my post COVID family vacation...

@yvettemoore1228 2 года назад

I think Beria was my first one too. What a prince!

@budnelson2495 2 года назад

There is no chance for a post-covid anything. Governments and corporations involved in outright control of ALL THINGS will never allow it to be. This is a permanent solving of the egos of mankind.

@thomasmarkwylie5688 2 года назад

I stay in Namibia and there is currently a huge fight about whether or not to allow phosphate mining in our ocean. Right now fishing is a huge employer and money maker, so they are fighting against the phosphate mining. Though, the companies that want to mine are international and high ranking government officials have already gotten huge payments to make it happen

@arynasabalenka3173 2 года назад

If you are Namibian, why do you have an English name? Aren't Namibians only black Africans, Dutch and German?

@thomasmarkwylie5688 2 года назад

@@boringbastard4920 insightful.

@thomasmarkwylie5688 2 года назад

@@arynasabalenka3173 Nope, there are many different cultures in Namibia.

@thomasmarkwylie5688 2 года назад

@@boringbastard4920 I didn't say I live or have an association with the island .... I said I live in Namibia. Which is in southern Africa.

@boringbastard4920 2 года назад

@@thomasmarkwylie5688 then i take it back.

@sonifer7692 2 года назад

As an Australian: - absolutely spot on - thanks so much for making this one.

@doggolovescheese1310 2 года назад

My old friend's wife was from there. He met her when he was in Peace Corps. It's so sad :( She immigrated to America with him and they had a son. The things I remember most about her was her giant heartfelt smile, the natural joy that shined from her and shone through with her son. They all loved to laugh and I don't remeber ever seeing her upset. The Australian "detention center' is beyond criminal and Australia government should be charged with crimes against humanity...even some of Aboriginal population has been sent there >:(

@iriswaterford8881 2 года назад

When were first nation people sent to Nauru 🇳🇷?

@vainoleppanen8971 2 года назад

In Finnish "nauru" means "laughter". Seems a little ironic.

@beingexemplary06 2 года назад

Hello sir

@stevencooke6451 2 года назад

Irony is a sub-theme on the once "Beautiful Island" it seems.

@bananapeaches6370 2 года назад

Hahaha was coming to say that hahahha

@Kay_S_1499_CODM 2 года назад

Hi there I'm from the island in fact I'm on the as of right now 😂😂 and the name Nauru comes from the word nawero which means (I go to the beach) 👍

@Bubbaist 2 года назад

I remember reading a blog by a tourist who had been there. He said that a tour of the entire country lasted an hour and a half.

@jo3d1rt391 2 года назад

I remember the same thing. For kicks and giggles I tried looking up the price and how to get there and couldn’t find anything.

@markwilkins8314 2 года назад

@@jo3d1rt391 I’ve flown with them,the oldest and well used 737

@VanillaMacaron551 2 года назад

@@jo3d1rt391 Visit Australia illegally with even slightly brown skin and we'll send you there to live for years in inhumane detention! Waiting for an international flight at Brisbane Airport one night, I heard repeated calls for passengers who hadn't shown up at the gate for a flight to Nauru. I don't think they wanted to go!

@NeutralGenericUser 2 года назад

Thank you for the excellent research. What happened to Nauru is really sad.

@Anonymity4LDAF 2 года назад

How has no one made a movie about this? It’s stranger than fiction!

@Maaike2356 2 года назад

"*some far away location* was doing alright, but things would soon take a turn for the worst." *insert the British*

@108hindu 2 года назад

and Australian’s, Germans, Japan…..

@108hindu 2 года назад

@Mod Zilla Erkle IS evil…..

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

@@108hindu I feel like the British were the least morally questionable in this affair.

@angelarch5352 2 года назад

that one guy who found the phosphate was to blame for all of this not the UK..., oh also greedy corporations that came after (big surprise)

@108hindu 2 года назад

@@angelarch5352 someone would have found it….

@flushedphoenix81 2 года назад

Sobering and well balanced as usual Mr Whistler et al. A timely reminder that although resources might be available it isn’t always a good idea to push ahead to get them

@TM-yn4iu 2 года назад

Ms McIntosh, your comment displays an example of a beautiful, zen like, reaction that I find exemplary. Sobering is a term used looking through a window, but the best to describe what we can't control looking through that window. Again, great!

@TM-yn4iu 2 года назад

Just my thoughts and words

@fateunleashed9680 2 года назад

Exactly this in my opinion is why it's especially important to remind ourselves of Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle in that order!

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

Probably a lesson about how not to run a sovereign wealth fund too.

@FatBlockOfHash 2 года назад

Not seen those words "et al" since my college books, god that brings a world of hurt 😂😂 don't miss those days of assignments seeming to be due every other day hahaha

@ianharvey4406 2 года назад

I think Simon cloned himself several times. One went crazy though and does brain blaze.

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

I'm guessing someone spilled a little cocaine and vodka in that test tube.

@dtaylor10chuckufarle 2 года назад

On the bright side... at least the US didn't use it as a nuclear test range, so there's that.

@gregraines1599 2 года назад

For enough money Nauro probably would have let them.

@VanillaMacaron551 2 года назад

or France, which did a lot of nuclear testing in the Pacific.

@Chris.Row1991 2 года назад

Or England which just used outback Australia. There's an old thunder box out there as a kind of monument to the tests.

@iriswaterford8881 2 года назад

@@Chris.Row1991 and the surviving first nations mob have been robbed of their country. Can't go there or die.

@TheGoldenPig. 2 года назад

It feels like this should be an into the shadows video

@HashtagNashtag_ Год назад

Would be interesting to do a follow-up video in a few years about how the deep sea mining has gone and what if Nauru has improved

@IbnShahid 2 года назад

Wow, that’s an incredible amount of violence, greed and stupidity for such a tiny place. Like Nauru is a microcosm of all the worst aspects of human civilisation.

@sknkwrksowner 2 года назад

After watching the video then your comment, "Which time?!?" was the first thought I had! lol Had they not apparently had a BUNCH of fertile women, they would have been wiped out 3 or 4 times over given the population size after guns/civil war, then the Japanese occupation. (not trying to be gross, but seriously looking at the remoteness, conditions, and native population drops after civil unrest, etc.)

@nooneyouknow9399 2 года назад

Truk is the name for the lagoon. The island is properly known as Chuuk

@dannyb7371 2 года назад

Nah Chuuk Lagoon is just what it's called now. 5 main islands have different names. Good dive site.

@gabrielfestini 2 года назад

I've been watching all your channels forever and this is one of the best videos! Learning about a passionating story and exploring the societal effects of a place I had never heard is why i love you guys 😊

@elisabethwestner3953 2 года назад

Well, this is just about the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

@VanillaMacaron551 2 года назад

The phosphate stuff is shameful but Australian politicians cruelly incarcerating refugees there to win votes is beyond the pale. "We will decide who comes to our country" said little Johnny Howard PM before he lost government and his own seat, but his totally misnamed Liberal Party kept the whole "tough on refugees" thing going. So they're about to be turfed out of office again (May 22). Meanwhile after realising it was no longer a vote-winner, just this week (April 22) they have released some of the last asylum-seekers into the Australian community after up to a decade in detention. These people are mental and physical wrecks and will probably never recover. Many refugees committed suicide on Nauru. Australia has had an appallingly corrupt and awful govt for the past seven years.

@PaladinOfNerds 2 года назад

And that, children, was the saddest little island in the world...

@paulkurilecz4209 2 года назад

Actually it is a quite common story of what happens when a natural resource is monetized.

@togia111 2 года назад

Love you highlighting the Pacific issues. Thank you from Samoa. But you gotta know. Nothing empty about the Pacific. Should do one on the history of overfishing I'm the Pacific.

@kezza6133 2 года назад

Never got to comment so early on your videos but thank you dude , very educational and entertaining to watch 👌

@SpectacularDisaster 2 года назад

Love the variety of these channels

@muzzer5327 2 года назад

Yes! Thank you! Been asking for this!

@cesarferraz7807 2 года назад

Pitcairn next! I mean there is even that movie Mutiny on the Bounty. But then with all the rapes and prision building. What a dark and interesting story...

@jackfitzgerald2955 2 года назад

Fun fact: "The white King" left Nauru and went north of the wall

@DonBair 2 года назад

Hey, that was pretty good, Simon!

@gemahgiouba8312 2 года назад

Very well researched topic. I learn alot from this video. I am a Nauruan but I don't even know my own history😅 Thank you for making this video, our leaders need to learn from past mistakes to avoid history from repeating itself.

@saifchowdhury3581 2 года назад

The same shit keeps happening in so many countries in Africa and South America where selected politicians and businessmen become super rich by selling rights of land and resources without proper precautions and plans

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

How much of the blame belongs with the people? To use Argentina for an example, they elect a woman recently as Vice-president who has an outstandingly bad record of corruption in the past, even by Argentine standards. At what point are the people voting to blame? It's also not limited to the likes of Africa and South America. In Australia a mining lease was sold extremely cheap. It since came out that significant corruption was involved in the deal.

@1003JustinLaw 2 года назад

I was thinking "nice quiet retirement location" until I heard the part about respiratory diseases... sigh, so hard to find somewhere relatively ignored by the wider world.

@rachitaroy6621 2 года назад

Simon, my man... Good to see you again 😄

@princessmarlena1359 2 года назад

This is definitely an interesting story, and excellent cautionary tale.

@siggy6044 2 года назад

Always love hearing interesting tales of places I've never heard of! Any word on a possible video on the Salton Sea? I remember you said it sounded interesting, just curious if there's enough for a video there

@JonMahn 2 года назад

I thought he did one quite a while ago, but I guess that was the Aral Desert maybe.

@KalmoK 2 года назад

Fun fact: 'nauru' is a finnish word and means laughter in english

@MrNicefash 2 года назад

In Scotland it means " Green Anus"

@Rashed1255 2 года назад

Sounds a bit like a speed run of Earth

@MR2Davjohn 2 года назад

It is so sad what things people do when greed, avarice and selfishness go unchecked.

@elijahmorton4934 2 года назад

Thanks Simon

@nathanj3114 2 года назад

"So you say it's all circling the drain. Had to end sometime."

@joseybryant7577 2 года назад

The Ziegfeld Theatre would be an interesting topic to cover. Pretty important in early 20th century show-business. Along with the Ziegfeld Follies.

@bluegold1026 2 года назад

Goes to show that, once again, the love of money is the root of all evil.

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

Really? I thought it was demonstratively false and idiotic cliches.

@dannydetonator 2 года назад

@@somethinglikethat2176 It's actually ignorance. Money, power and unbridled means to get it stems from that.

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

@@dannydetonator I can think of plenty of terrible things that have been done free of ignorance and that were in the objective best interest of the perpetrators. Unfortunately for comment sections everywhere, blanket, one sentence, one size fits all summary to complicated issues are rare.

@iriswaterford8881 2 года назад

Greed of any kind. Is the root of all evil, whether for money, power, avarice.

@moshieroo1010 2 года назад

Thank you for this very informative video! I have an assignment on the Global Goals, and this helped me understand why certain things are this way. Thanks :)

@m39fan 2 года назад

How could you watch this and not want to cry?

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

Because at some point you reach a limit. To paraphrase a remark by Jason Pargin on the Cracked podcast, if you truly had empathy for every tragedy in the world you'd be so overcome with grief that you wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning.

@Buglife.352 Год назад

Easy

@Nupagade246 2 года назад

Great one. Thankx our bearded friend

@TheMAXAnswer 2 года назад

Always have been interested in the republic smaller than my very humble home"town", but never heard of its history in such detail! Yet another very interesting video!

@29blazehead 2 года назад

One thing I've noticed with some former colonies is they protest the controlling nation for its exploitation, but then they turn around and do similar things once they are independent. Shows they are very similar in thought, they just wanted to be the big guys.

@IRosamelia 2 года назад

Botswana being a notable exception 🇧🇼

@blaznskais2048 2 года назад

I was thinking something similar. It’s hard for me to feel much sympathy for Nauru when they turned around and not only continued the strip mining but ramped it up. And then had the Gaul to try and sue Australia for damages caused by the mining they continued.

@francisbergeron4334 2 года назад

It's just the natural laws of civilisation at work. Independence, anarchy or any revolutions in a power structure just creates a power vacuum that gets filled by the strongest autoritharian around. So when Nauru became independent, and the previous ''leaders'' left, the most adept opportunist around took power. And the skillset that alowed them to gain their power led them to the same practices as the previous government. It's human nature, sadly.

@dannydetonator 2 года назад

Have you thought of the bigger picture though? Like, if they were not colonized, ethnically clensed, their habitat, way of life and governance half destroyed in the first place? The rest is just the consequence of that initial trauma, or countless traumas in this case, as i see it. Human nature, yes, but annihilation of balance brings on human nature, and then some. Power and money corrupts accordingly, no doubt about it. Just who is to say, that the majority agreed on mining their own island to hell? Or if they, population, or even their ever corrupt new-baked leaders new the consequences, even if they cared? Ignorance while giving powers to reap quick rewards will always result in tragedy, sooner or later. Just from our morally unfounded 'western' view, lot of you have hardship seeing the hypocrisy saying 'it's their own fault' in the end, no sympathy required. After all, somehow they managed to stay sustained, without killing each other off, living in what's now assumed as unspoiled paradise for millenias, just until the 'civilization' arrived. Funny, that.

@IRosamelia 2 года назад

@@dannydetonator true, the problem is colonization isn't just economic but cultural. Natives mostly everywhere started living like westerners and having the same desires and behaviors. Hence in post colonial times developing countries have mostly become Animal Farm style dystopias.

@thomasglessner6067 2 года назад

Simon, I am not going to sleep well tonight after watching this video. Thank you for the video. Really sad history. TG

@cullyx2913 2 года назад

Excellent episode

@Foiled_Foliage 2 года назад

....what a horribly sad ending...hope its not about to get any worse.

@fidelio9301 2 года назад

The Nauru in the 90s sounded awesome. No questions. Boom.

@gogglespisano24 2 года назад

Simon, how do you have so many channels and how am I obsessed with them all? You're fantastic. Thanks!

@raycarl7933 2 года назад

I stayed in Nauru twice in ‘79 and ‘80. Somewhere between bizarre and horrible. It was depressing.

@luvondarox 2 года назад

13:43 My gosh. I thought my phone had jumped to a That Chapter episode. 🤣

@NickGiffin 2 года назад

Have you done a video on Love Canal in New York? It would be an interesting topic.

@Bambisgf77 Год назад

That was absolutely riveting 😮… God bless those poor little children who have never known anything but despair.

@VWdude278 2 года назад

Seth Meyers will be amused that he's being used as an example of the horrors of European colonialism.

@VincentGonzalezVeg 2 года назад

Matt Damon

@spencerthompson1049 2 года назад

Great Geographics video! Never heard of this place, and what a history!

@TheEvilCommenter 2 года назад

Good video 👍

@brandongreen3401 2 года назад

Great video. A video on Minami-Tori-shima would be cool. A tiny Japanese island that is way out in the ocean.

@boodashaka2841 Год назад

Minamidaito-jima seems really neat too. It looks almost unreal as well. I know this is a super old comment but still

@gladlawson61 2 года назад

Have you done the shell / oil damage done to I think congo? It would be another good lesson on what not to do. Also can u do ... how they find oil.. drill for it vs fracking. Why we still need it but still need green alternatives at the same time

@gunnargunnarsson5963 2 года назад

I think that was in Nigeria

@roberttorres8477 2 года назад

Good morning Simon.

@daviddenley3512 2 года назад

Absolutely Shocking!

@joeyr7294 2 года назад

I was just re-watching all the khan vids....but a new post take presence!

@styx4947 2 года назад

Love that line "there are no excuses Available with Square Space" I don't know why. But I do

@ShionWinkler 2 года назад

"It was a paradise on earth... Then Europe happened..." This seems to be a recurring theme around the world.

@nicholasaudy6064 Год назад

Better than Japan who massacred a quarter of the population through forced starvation and execution

@TheNadnerb 2 года назад

5:49 "So anyway, I started blasting."

@jo3d1rt391 2 года назад

My mind went straight to the Futurama episode where everybody tries to save the penguins on Neptune I think it is, but in the end the penguins end up blasting each other with guns left behind

@humanrightsadvocate 2 года назад

The research done for this video is impressive.

@rogerszmodis Год назад

Oh I’m sorry, I can’t divulge information about that customer's secret, illegal account.

@mpd2022 2 года назад

Very fascinating. Ever considered a video on Tuvalu? Might be a good one to do while the nation still exists :/

@veggieboyultimate 2 года назад

There needs to be a reforestation program in the island. It could help solve at least one part of its problem.

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

The amount of rehab work and the complexity might make it not viable.

@dannydetonator 2 года назад

@@somethinglikethat2176 Check out holistic farming. If that don't work, big part of Earth will be screwed.

@sknkwrksowner 2 года назад

It's not that type of ground and one of the main points is NOTHING can grow in the aftermath. It's like copper mining in the US. The ground is basically toxic and damaged beyond repair.

@SevCaswell 2 года назад

aht he Second World War, where two nations competed to be the most inhumane and evil...

@seanb.6793 2 года назад

Hey Elon Musk! Want to settle Mars? Try fixing Naru and making it liveable and beautiful again.

@somethinglikethat2176 2 года назад

What will that solve? Realistically it would only add about 20km² of liveable space to the planet. Compare that to becoming a multi-planet species. The whole "billionaires should fix this problem" mentality is deeply flawed.

@VanillaMacaron551 2 года назад

Rising sea levels will put it underwater within decades. Like Tuvalu, Kiribati and other Pacific nations, the entire populations will have to evacuate to NZ, Australia or elsewhere. These are tiny, sandy islands barely above sea level.

@patmurphy6849 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Simon. I never knew anything about this poor island. Everyone needs to know what disrespecting the environment can do. Very sad indeed.

@bobwilliams899 Год назад

I hope so Simon is the best

@victorberglund 2 года назад

13:44 Hey you, and welcome!

@johnn3542 2 года назад

I've seen other videos about this, enjoying this more in depth one. Wasn't the phosphate from bird poop? Built up over time but migratory birds.

@dieseltoe 2 года назад

14:55 Nauruans were offered to be resettled on Fraser island (which was a choice of 2 islands off the coast of Oz, dunno the other island).

@belindal4206 2 года назад

If you haven’t already, can you do a video on North Sentinel Island / The Sentinelese Tribe?

@edwardgilmour9013 2 года назад

Aside from the ethical lobotomy of Australia's detention camps. It is possible to back fill Nauru with soil & coal ash from Australia. Return it to something habitable.

@kieronparr3403 2 года назад

Didn't the Nauru government also buy a fleet of lamborghinis or maseratis? For 29m of road

@markwilkins8314 2 года назад

I think that was PNG

@overkillsnake 2 года назад

Did you get a new camera, Simon? Or is it just the lighting? 🤔

@KWood13 2 года назад

Simon, how many dang channels do you have now

@resileaf9501 2 года назад

We're going to have to put a stop to this rampant greed that is quickly destroying our environment and our ability to survive on the only planet we have. Otherwise we're all going to be in the same situation as Nauru.

@iriswaterford8881 2 года назад

Don't fly or drive a car. Ride a bike or walk. Compost, compost. Grow your own. Don't grumble. Damn I am channelling my mother. Our compost heap grew the best pumpkins, cows give milk, cream & then you can make ice cream (Dad was the best maker), butter. We had some fruit trees, neighbours grew others. Resileaf you are correct greed is destroying this planet.