The+Struggling+Nauru

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By:Margaret Kim and Olivia Maj

Since 1989, Nauru has been having greenhouse effect warnings, and throughout the progressing years this has been becoming a major issue. The small island, Nauru, is located in the Pacific Ocean. It is close to the equator and about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. __**Throughout the years the South Pacific islands have been slowly deteriorating due to climate chanrge. The rising sea levels, global warming and massive climate changes within the South Pacific, has raised many concerns.**__ Is Nauru possibly sinking? Marelene Moses states, "The sea around us is getting warmer, droughts have become commonplace, and the coastal erosion is as bad as anyone can remember," This isolated island has been mantled by the Japanese during World War II, it has been sucked dry of it's phosphate resources, and since 1989 the island has been dealing with major climate effects. Honestly ask yourself one simple question, have you ever heard of Nauru? What about the fact that it is likely to sink with all it's beautiful monuments. We will only be able to have a slight memory of what was once so resourceful. Also mentioning that due to the climate change, coral reefs have been dissappearing. This known as coral bleaching. It is were the temperature in the water reaches so high that the coral is burnt away and since pollution increased they are on the verge of exticntion. All the organisms that once lived there have to find new homes or die off, causing food shortages. Scientists say that this has increased so much that there it is not worth saving the coral reefs, they have already been demolished by the climate change. Now many may wonder, why is this happening? It is happening because people show negative motivations to climate change and ignorance towards preventing climate shitfting. If we don't take any action to do something soon the island of Nauru will only be known as sucken history. __Timeline of Nauru__
 * Here is some background knowledge on how Nauru became itself. (BBC News)**
 * 1942-45** - Nauru occupied by the Japanese. Some 1,200 Nauruans - two-thirds of the population - deported to Micronesia to work as forced labourers. Five hundred die from starvation or bombing.
 * 1967** - Nauruans gain control of phosphate mining.
 * 1968 - Independence.** First president is Hammer DeRoburt.
 * 1989** - **UN report on greenhouse effect warns Nauru might disappear beneath the sea in the 21st Century.**
 * 1999** - Nauru joins the United Nations
 * 2001** August - Australia pays Nauru to hold asylum seekers picked up trying to enter Australia illegally.
 * 2002** June - Nauru holds some 1,000 asylum seekers on Australia's behalf. President Rene Harris says Canberra's promise that they would be gone by May has been broken.
 * 2003** January - Bernard Dowiyogo becomes president after a tussle for power with Rene Harris. Dowiyogo describes Nauru's situation as "critical".
 * 2003** March - Dowiyogo agrees to US demands to wind-up Nauru's offshore banking industry amid money-laundering allegations. Shortly after this, Dowiyogo dies after heart surgery in the US.
 * 2003** May - Ludwig Scotty elected as president but ousted in vote of no-confidence.
 * 2003** August - Rene Harris re-elected as president.
 * 2003** December - Some asylum seekers at Australia's offshore detention centre on Nauru stage a **hunger strike.**
 * 2004** June - President Rene Harris loses vote of no confidence and resigns. Ludwig Scotty is elected president.
 * 2004** September - President Scotty sacks parliament after it fails to pass reform budget by deadline.
 * 2005** May - Nauru agrees to restore diplomatic ties with Taiwan after a break of nearly three years. The move angers China, which accuses Nauru of being interested only in "material gains".
 * 2005** October - Financial Action Task Force, set up to fight money laundering, removes Nauru from its list of uncooperative countries. The **island's economic collapse left it with decaying infrastructure**
 * 2007** March - Australia sends Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Nauru.
 * 2007** December - President Scotty ousted in a no-confidence vote. Marcus Stephen chosen as replacement.
 * 2008** February - Australia ends its policy of sending asylum seekers into detention on small Pacific islands, with the last **refugees** leaving Nauru.
 * 2008** April - Government of President Stephen returned to office in snap elections, ending months of parliamentary deadlock over the budget.
 * 2008** November - Finance Minister Kieran Keke announces plans to set up private bank to fill gap left by collapse of state Bank of Nauru in
 * 2010** March - Voters reject raft of constitutional changes aimed at stabilising government and strengthen human rights in referendum.
 * 2010** April - Early parliamentary elections fail to produce outright winner. Mr Stephen's administration continues in caretaker role while negotiations continue.
 * 2010** June - Parliamentary elections again fail to produce a clear winner.
 * 2010** November - Parliament re-elects President Stephen for second three-year term under a coalition deal aimed at ending an eight-month political impasse.
 * 2011** November - President Stephen resigns amid corruption allegations. MPs elect Freddy Pitcher to succeed him.

//HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD FURTHER CONSIDER://
 * WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO HELP SAVE NAURU?**
 * ARE YOU GOING TO HELP AT ALL WITH OUR SHIFTING CLIMATE?**
 * DOES RECYCLING GAIN MORE IMPORTANCE AFTER READING THIS ARTICLE?**