1. The Earth Charter and Climate Change
... are unsustainable"[Raj09]. Thus, according to the report, there is an urgent need for the enforcement of systems such as "sustainable consumption" and "polluter pays". A case study in the Pacific islands that reflects the disobedience to the Earth Charter principles is the exploitation of the environment in the form of mining of phosphate in Nauru. Mining in this area has devastated the environment and created financial, legal and cultural problems ... . Phosphate is the basis of Nauru's economy but with the exhaustion of the minerals, the island is ... ...
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