> Reviewing the island’s painful history, it strikes me that so much of what has gone wrong on Nauru—and goes on still—has to do with its location, frequently described as “the middle of nowhere”.. remoteness made it a convenient trash can—a place to turn the land into trash, to launder dirty money, to disappear unwanted people, and now a place that may be allowed to disappear altogether..
#NaomiKlein on #Nauru, an example of #MetropolisSatellite #CenterPeriphery #extractivism like #Toroku

Galeano talks about #AndreGunderFrank analyzing "#MetropolisSatellite" relations. For Toroku Kazuyuki Kawahara (and for Minamata, Michiko Ishimure) talks about #CenterPeriphery relations: how the urban centers profit at the expense of the rural peripheries. The history of #Bolivia's #Potosi features mercury poisoning too with the nearby #Huancavelica mines. Galeano's book has me thinking of #NaomiKlein on #Nauru in #ThisChangesEverything, #Peru's economy relied on centuries of #BirdPoop too.