“I forgive you if you have never heard of Nauru — but you will not forgive yourselves if you ignore our story.”
Nauru's small size and obscurity should not excuse the wider world from learning the environmental lesson of its ruined phosphate landscape.
— Marcus Stephen, Nauru
Source: Marcus Stephen, "On Nauru, a Sinking Feeling," The New York Times (19 July 2011)
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