Sydney - Perhaps no one imagined that Nauru, a small island nation within 4 thousand KM from the city of Sydney, Australia is, once the most prosperous state makes jealous people all over the world. But now, Nauru is simply a state that approximately 75 percent of its territory is not suitable for habitation.
As quoted news.com, Nauru wealth began when the discovery of phosphate or fertilizer from bird droppings over a thousand years old in the 1960s. The findings were then invited foreign companies to make mine in the country to then dredge all existing inventory phosphate. In the golden era of phosphate, Nauru is a country with a per capita income is the highest of any occupation.
However, the discovery of new resources Nauru is making people complacent. Many of them are spending money that is owned to something they do not need.
After the phosphate contained in the bowels of the earth Nauru depleted, the country's economy is in the Pacific is a poor country. Even Nauru should owe it to Australia to be able to run the government. Nauru also relies imports from countries such as Australia, India and Indonesia.
Here's the story of Nauru, the richest country in the world that then poor because of the nature-loving citizens spree summarized Online Media Freedom.
1. RICH BECAUSE OF BIRD'S POOP
The discovery of fossilized bird droppings over a thousand years old have changed this country forever. Natural compost that has sparked the manufacture of the first mining by foreign companies.
When Nauru gained independence from Britain in 1968, the local population and then start the mine itself. State area of 21 square kilometers are then explored to the fullest.
In 1980, Nauru became the richest country universal when viewed from the per capita income. Great achievement for a small country.
2. SPREE LIKE DOLLARS ARE FOR TOILET PAPER
Nauru became suddenly rich country then change the lifestyle of its citizens. Many local residents who then quit his job and spend it on vacation and traveling abroad and imported luxury cars like Lamborghini spot.
"It is difficult for local residents to think investing money. Proverbial dollars even been used as toilet paper," said one Nauru people told to BBC.
"It was like every day there must be a party."
3. HIGHEST LEVEL OF OBESITY IN THE WORLD
Many of them were then left the traditional life and start eating unhealthy foods, alcohol and cigarettes.
Their life expectancy dropped to 50 years of age, where they suffer from diabetes, heart attack and other chronic diseases. WHO announced in 2007, 94.5 percent of Nauru are overweight, and 71.7 percent were obese. This case is the highest in the world, before it is taken by meksikopada 2013.
Currently, Nauru has type two diabetes prefalansi centipede in the world, infecting 31 percent of adults.
4. MINING HAS BEEN DESTRUCTIVE NATURE NAURU PHOSPHATE
With many mines in the country, which is now abandoned only damaged the environment that produces decay. The damage is very severe, so that by 75 percent Nauru uninhabitable regions.
One of the former minister of Nauru, James Aingimea (84) said, if you see the impact of mining, he hopes phosphate was never found.
"I hope to Nauru as before. When I was a child, everything is so beautiful. Time the tree was still there. Green everywhere, and we can eat fresh coconut and tribes. Now I see what happened, I want to cry."
5. FROM THE RICH COUNTRY, BUT NOW NAURU IS A DEBTOR
In the early 1980s phosphate supplies or bird droppings are then used as compost begins to thin. it subsequently affects the country's revenue.
A few years later, Nauru eventually went bankrupt. Government has made a bad investment and then make a loan.
"A lot of money invested in something that does not produce," said the head of Geosciences at the University of Sydney, Professor John Connell told ABC.
He then gave an example, one construct buildings in foreign countries, such as Nauru House in Melbourne, hotel, phosphate plant in India and the Philippines which then could not survive.
With little financial option, in 2001, Nauru made a treaty with Australia to make loans that make it a dependency. For this year, the amount of the loan has reached USD 27.1 million.
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