, not far from a quayside where workers unload frozen mackerel, a derelict building stands a metre deep in murky water. The warehouse was flooded in 2007, after torrential rains and a tidal surge submerged half the city under nearly four metres of water, displacing half a million people and causing $550m in damage. The building has remained inundated and abandoned ever since—barring the hardy soul who seems to be camping on the first floor, aided by a rowing boat.
The plan was controversial because of its huge cost, the damage it would do to the maritime ecosystem in the enclosed bay and the fact that it did not deal with a significant cause of flooding in Jakarta: subsidence. Though the sea is rising by 0.8cm a year, parts of northern, coastal Jakarta are sinking by 25cm a year, according to Heri Andreas, a geologist at the Bandung Institute of Technology.
That's Jakarta City
There’s nothing that damages everything as climate change.
Hey, maybe don't throw all your trash in the river. Just an idea.
Let something be done
You can't use that word. It's a slur
CLIMATIC CHANGE, MUST BE CARE ABOUT IT QUICKLY
When building concrete jungles there must be many green/ground spaces left to absorb rain plus better sewage draining
Funny, I would have thought rethinking pumping the water out from under cities to stop them sinking, NOT forcing the poor into the lowlands, addressing the drainage issues associated with altered watercourses, and looking at the impervious characteristics of roads/buildings ...
Jakarta was built on swampland. It's always flooded. It's actually below sea level . But hey, why not blame climate change for idiots in Indonesia building a capital on a giant swamp.
Chiba blackouts for many days by typhoon.
Are they
The floods that have always plagued Asian cities are becoming more severe
Pray harder? lol
Or deforestation and bad city planning
Retardlicans say it's a hoax
BULLSHIT! This has happened here for CENTURIES
Think again. Rising sea levels will kill the swamps and the mangroves. Move the cities off the shore. Do not rebuild flooded areas. The usual FAKE NEWS lousy reporting.
💫🥂👌
Just change perspective living in 'water front city'
That’s sad, and it sucks. Most human populations are near water, just like most cities are next to freeways—for the convenience. We’re going to see a lot more floods even after we get the climate change problem fixed. Carbon emissions still need reversal, that’s a few years+
Jakarta is 40% BELOW SEA LEVEL... a la New Orleans. What else do you expect
GuangZhou can be taken as best example.
Today in Utah. GLOBAL WARMING is junk science FakeNews.