Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, now the world’s largest city and home to 42 million people, is sinking rapidly, as climate change and overdevelopment collide.
Source: The_Weekend_Baker
Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, now the world’s largest city and home to 42 million people, is sinking rapidly, as climate change and overdevelopment collide.
Source: The_Weekend_Baker
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Sinking 6 inches a year????? That’s insane, no infrastructure can keep up with that
I wish stuff like this was reported on better. I wouldn’t really call your city sinking because you at pumping more groundwater than the recharge rate of the aquifer even under perfect ideal conditions they can only replenish so fast lol. Nothing to do with climate change, just poor city planning.
This story is indicative of the endless growth mindset. Indonesia is *already building a new capital* because the issues in Jakarta are known to be unsustainable. Yet short term growth is still so important that a metropolitan planned to be abandoned also claimed in 2025 the title of largest on earth?
The article also gives an example of how a house “used to be two stories” but flooded (with people still living in it??) and oh by the way all this concrete is putting too much pressure on the land underneath.
It does not make sense to build new buildings or place additional drains on resources at all, if over the coming decades the location is known to be unlivable for all but a fraction of the population. Saying nothing of the fact a “big one” might come by one day and seal the fate of millions.