Indonesia will acquire a new capital on the island of Borneo. The current capital, Jakarta, is threatened with extinction by 2050, due to the rising waters. Global warming is changing geography visibly.
Faced with the rising waters, the Indonesian government decided to move its capital, Jakarta, to the island of Borneo.
This is a spectacular decision announced on Monday by the Indonesian president.
The capital Jakarta (10 million inhabitants) is destined to be submerged by the ocean by 2050. The ocean rises every year with the melting polar ice of Greenland. At the current rate, one-third of the city will be gone in a generation.
So now it is necessary to act where this radical decision to move the Indonesian capital.
The government created a new capital 1,000 kilometers away, on the island of Borneo, in the dry. This move will begin in 2024.
It remains to find a name for this new capital. If you have ideas, you can send them to the Indonesian government.
Elsewhere on earth, what are the other most endangered places?
In the Pacific, whole countries could disappear like the Kiribati Islands (110,000 inhabitants) where 32 islets have already disappeared.
But, this phenomenon is visible everywhere. For example, in Florida, where the seaside villas are no longer popular. They are regularly submerged and rich people are now looking to settle inland, in the old popular neighborhoods that are High & Dry (high and dry). It's the new fashion in real estate.
In France, we have the same problem along the Atlantic coast, with seaside houses that find themselves on the front line facing this rising water.
As we can see, the whole geography is changing before our eyes.