 Global Warming
Global warming is a continuous rise in the overall temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is caused by higher quantities of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. Which are generally attributed to the greenhouse effect.
In simple language
Global warming results from abnormally rapid rises in Earth’s average surface temperatures during the last 100 years. Owing primarily to greenhouse gases emitted by humans. Nature is a result of the combustion of fossil and natural fuels.
Impact Of Global Warming
Global warming, or the steady warming of the Earth’s surface, oceans, and atmosphere. It is mainly caused by human activity, notably the deliberate burning of fossil fuels, releasing carbon dioxide, vehicle exhausts, methane. And other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Natural sources include the emission of smoke from forest fires and volcanic eruptions. More comprehensive temperature changes result in floods, droughts, ice cap melting, heavier storms. And winter freezes, as well as cyclones, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
What are the significant parameters that emit greenhouse gases?
There are numerous causes, according to sciencing.com.
The first cause is greenhouse gases, produced by both human and natural occurrences.
Changes in the Sun’s Intensity are the second cause.
Human-based industrial activities are the third cause.
Human-based agricultural activities are the fourth cause.
Cause #5: Deforestation by mostly humans but also nature at work.
Why should we be concerned about global warming?
As already mentioned,…
Many sorts of natural catastrophes, such as storms, heatwaves, floods, and droughts, have become more severe due to rising temperatures. As evidenced by both observation and scientific investigations.
A warmer climate also creates an unstable atmosphere that may collect, retain. It shed more water, causing weather patterns to change dramatically. With rainy areas becoming rainier and drier parts becoming drier. The natural equilibrium of the Earth’s swing patterns is growing increasingly out of control. With many regions on the verge of losing control.
The capital of Indonesia, which is sinking and dirty, is relocating to a new city.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Jakarta is congested, dirty, earthquake-prone, and sinking swiftly into the Java Sea. The government is now leaving and relocating the country’s capital to Borneo Island.
President Joko Widodo sees a new capital as a solution for Jakarta’s issues. He lowering the city’s population while allowing the country to start over with a “sustainable metropolis” that has adequate public transit. It is integrated with its natural environment and is not vulnerable to natural disasters.
Widodo said last week, before parliament accepted the plan, that “the creation of the new capital city is not simply a physical shift of government offices.” .”The fundamental goal is to develop a smart new city that is globally competitive, to build a new locomotive for the transformation. Toward an Indonesia based on innovation and technology that is built on a green economy.”
Skeptics, on the other hand, are concerned about the environmental impact of building a sprawling 256,000-hectare (990-square-mile) city in Borneo’s East Kalimantan province. Which is home to orangutans, leopards, and a variety of other wildlife. As well as committing $34 billion to the ambitious project during a pandemic.
Strategy to developing New Indonesia
“The strategic environmental research for the new capital city reveals at least three fundamental issues,” said Dwi Sawing. An official with the WALHI environmental group.
Water systems are under attack, as are climate change risks, hazards to flora and wildlife, and pollution and environmental degradation,” she warned.
Widodo’s idea to establish the city of Nusantara — an old Javanese phrase meaning “archipelago” — was first announced in 2019. It will include erecting government buildings and residences from the ground up. Initial estimates put the number of governmental servants relocating to the city, around 2,000 km northeast of Jakarta, at 1.5 million.
However, ministries and government agencies are still trying to finalize that number.
It will be near Balikpapan, an East Kalimantan seaport with approximately 700,000.
Indonesia is an archipelago nation with over 17,000 islands. Still, Java is the country’s most densely populated island and where Jakarta is located. It is home to 54 percent of the country’s more than 270 million inhabitants.
Jakarta has roughly 10 million people, with the broader metropolitan region having a population of three times that.
It has been regarded as the world’s fastest sinking metropolis, with one-third of the city expected to be inundated by 2050 if current trends continue. The leading cause is uncontrolled groundwater extraction. But the rising Java Sea due to climate change has aggravated the problem.
Aside from that, its air and groundwater are incredibly polluted. It floods frequently. Its streets are so congested that the economy is predicted to lose $4.5 billion each year due to traffic congestion.
Indonesia will follow in the footsteps of Pakistan, Brazil, and Myanmar in building a purpose-built capital.
Investors in Project
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan leads the construction committee, Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, who is no stranger to ambitious construction projects at home in the UAE. They include Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of Japanese holding company SoftBank, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who currently runs the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
State funds will cover 19 percent of the project, with the remainder coming through government-business collaboration and direct investment by state-owned enterprises and the private sector.
Basuki Humulone, the Minister of Public Works and Housing, said preliminary planning had been completed by clearing 56,180 hectares (138,800 acres) of land for the presidential palace, national parliament, government offices, and roads connecting the capital to other East Kalimantan cities.
Maximilian stated that the core government area should be completed by 2024. According to current plans, approximately 8,000 civil servants are expected to have relocated to the city by then.
Widodo earlier stated that the Presidential Palace, the Home, Foreign, and Defense Ministries, and the State Secretariat, would be relocated to the new capital city before the end of his second term in 2024.
By 2045, the entire migration process should be completed.
According to Agus Ambagis, a public policy specialist from the University of Indonesia who has called for anthropologists to investigate the situation, it’s unknown what effect it’ll have on Jakarta and the people who stay behind. “There will be significant social changes, both for individuals and the environment.”
Published By: Khushboo Mehta
Edited By: Kritika Kashyap
