S5 E5: Jakarta, the Sinking Capital

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Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Southeast Asia is especially vulnerable to storms, rising oceans, and other climate effects—though countries in the region did very little to create the crisis. In Indonesia, among other climate-related challenges, the capital city is sinking into the sea. Part 5 of our series, The Repair, on the climate emergency.

Reported by Nita Roshita, with recording and production help from Hilman Handoni. Mixed by host John Biewen. Interviews with Bondan Kanumoyoso, Yayat Supriatna, Selamet Daroyni, Amalia Syafruddin, and others.

The series editor is Cheryl Devall. Music in this episode by Lil Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, and Fabian Almazan. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.

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0:00.0	This episode was produced with support from Round Earth Media, a program of the International
0:07.0	Women's Media Foundation, and with help from youth listeners who've supported the show.
0:14.2	So everybody gets it now, right, John?
0:17.4	Everybody's on board?
0:18.8	Meaning that the climate crisis is real and we're in it?
0:22.7	Yes, as we're making this series 2021 does feel like a pivotal year in this agonizingly
0:30.5	long struggle to wake people up in our part of the world to this emergency.
0:36.1	Given the relentless drought and wildfires in the Western US, the off-the-charts temperatures
0:41.8	in famously cool places like Portland and Seattle, the prominent news video of that wild
0:48.8	flooding in Germany, Belgium, China, more flooding in Venice and Turkey, and Louisiana
0:56.5	and Mississippi and New York, New Jersey and Philly.
1:00.8	Don't forget those apocalyptic fires in Greece, on and on.
1:05.6	All of that.
1:06.6	It does seem like a lot more people in the US, for example, have stopped talking about
1:11.2	a coming climate crisis.
1:14.0	Now they see that it's very much here.
1:16.8	But it feels dumb and frankly kind of embarrassing to sit here with you, Amy Westerville, and talk
1:24.8	about people getting a clue here in the third decade of the 21st century.
1:30.6	Yeah, don't even get me started on how long it's been very clear that we've been in deep
1:36.3	trouble.
1:37.3	Climate scientists have been shouting about it for 40, 50 years.
1:41.8	Amplified by journalists like yourself.
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