Jakarta is sinking faster than any other big city on the planet, faster even than climate change is causing the sea to risehttp://nyti.ms/2CTQ5UH
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The main cause? Jakartans are digging illegal wells, drip by drip draining the underground aquifers on which the city rests — like deflating a giant cushion underneath it. http://nyti.ms/2p9oSeA pic.twitter.com/MoDXXq6BWz
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About 40 percent of Jakarta now lies below sea level, and hydrologists say the city has only a decade to halt its sinking http://nyti.ms/2kBUm8C pic.twitter.com/0LmtaiKT3N
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To keep Jakarta from ending up underwater, the city needs to stop digging wells and provide residents with reliable, clean water, and — at an untold cost of billions — retrofit the city with a sewer system http://nyti.ms/2kWHo4x pic.twitter.com/Q1k7E6RX8n
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The 3mm a year sea rise is a drop in the bucket.
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Rising sea levels, warming of the atmosphere, melting of polar ice caps, etc. etc. = CLIMATE CHANGE!
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The ocean refuses no river.
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