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The sinking megacity 11:21 - Oct 15 with 846 views

A good (but long) read about Jakarta and how it could be the first "megacity" claimed by climate change:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jakarta-sinking

It's essentially a catalogue of errors in both infrastructure snd bureaucracy coupled with the rising sea level from climate change. There is serious talk about having to build a new capital and relocate 30m people at some point in the future - the numbers are simply huge.

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The sinking megacity on 11:37 - Oct 15 with 810 views

GeoffSentence

It's sinking due to groundwater pumping not climate change. The predicted rises in sea level are trivial compared to the drop in ground level they are attributing sea level rise.

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The sinking megacity on 11:44 - Oct 15 with 801 views

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The sinking megacity on 11:37 - Oct 15 by GeoffSentence
It's sinking due to groundwater pumping not climate change. The predicted rises in sea level are trivial compared to the drop in ground level they are attributing sea level rise.

It's a combination of both.

You also have to remember that they couple sea level rise with higher storm surges.

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The sinking megacity on 11:46 - Oct 15 with 793 views

GeoffSentence

The sinking megacity on 11:44 - Oct 15 by StokieBlue
It's a combination of both. You also have to remember that they couple sea level rise with higher storm surges. SB

But climate change isn't the main reason here, it's some other level of human fvckwittery that is the main problem, and significantly so.

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The sinking megacity on 12:59 - Oct 15 with 703 views

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The sinking megacity on 11:46 - Oct 15 by GeoffSentence
But climate change isn't the main reason here, it's some other level of human fvckwittery that is the main problem, and significantly so.

They're also polluting the hell out of the river system by the looks of it

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