Audio Story 4

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/the-middle-of-nowhere

This time I chose to find a story by looking through the radio archives on this american life, I selected the year 2003 and chose this one audio story called The Middle of Nowhere. I was assuming that the story was going to be about some wierd type of murder mystery or something that happened in some state like Iowa where almost nothing is there, but i was vey wrong. They talked about an Island called Nauru, where lots of illegal things go on. Many people have not heard about Nauru I guess, including myself until i listened to this audio story. Nauru was native to a bunch of indigineous islanders who survived solely off of the natural resources that the small island offered them but eventually a chemist came down and saw that there was limestone, the richest limestone ever. They go on to talk about how the island has been used for illegal money laundering and how the island has lost everything that mad eit so special to the indigineous peoples. It's a sad thing to think about how countries that are big and powerful such as America or Germany and lots of other can come in and take over something and basically wipe out a population. And I think theres probably many other cases where this has happened that I don't even know about, and it makes you think about these big time officials and wonder if they have heart, and are just doing theyre job or if theyre just so wrapped up in their job and their powerfulness that they just do whatever they want to do just because they can. I'm sure anyone could ask the questions how can we change the way that these big countries just come in and run over small populations like Nauru's, but the fact that its so complicated because this is whats been going on for years makes it hard to answer that. Sometimes I think about whether I would want to double major, becaus eI want to persue an education in Environmetnal Studies to contribute towards environmental awareness and preservation, but I feel like that isn't enough to be able to persuade people that are Prime Ministers and Presidents of Military Generals or even CEO's of big companies to change the way that they do things.