Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater

[88m3]

Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater


I think this is a big deal, Brehs?!

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Lumuria!

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

No fixing that problem there. They finished.

 

[Leasy]

Earth goes through cycles ain’t shyt we could do.

 

[GPBear]

Reminds me of Plato’s “Critias”, where he used the story of a city sinking into the ocean (Atlantis) as a metaphor for how a democratic city-state can fall due to corruption.

 

[Leasy]

at dude negging me like Earth didnt have an ice age 10 thousand years ago or all planets in solar system are warming up

 

[Moich]

at dude negging me like Earth didnt have an ice age 10 thousand years ago or all planets in solar system are warming up

Difference is now we are speeding up the natural cycles by pumping all this greenhouse gases and other mega changes we doing to the earth due to our numbers and technology.

 

[joeychizzle]

Head there before it's gone brehs. Just like Venice.

 

[hashmander]

Head there before it's gone brehs. Just like Venice.

a polluted Venice.

 

[joeychizzle]

a polluted Venice.

Haha you're not wrong. Both worth visiting though, for their local charms.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

i only skimmed through the article but it seems that the city is actually sinking into the ocean, not the ocean rising to engulf it.
why is it sinking?

edit:
went back and read some more.

In fact, Jakarta is sinking faster than any other big city on the planet, faster, even, than climate change is causing the sea to rise — so surreally fast that rivers sometimes flow upstream, ordinary rains regularly swamp neighborhoods and buildings slowly disappear underground, swallowed by the earth. 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. About 40 percent of Jakarta now lies below sea level.

weird.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

i only skimmed through the article but it seems that the city is actually sinking into the ocean, not the ocean rising to engulf it.
why is it sinking?

edit:
went back and read some more.



weird.

Public sanitation is so crucial. I hope Lagos sinks into the sea too