Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is a coastal city northwest of Java Island with a dense population of nearly 10.7 million. Flooding and landslides occur frequently near the coastlines, and this is largely from human activity through urbanization (Abidin et al., 2012). Urban sprawl is...
Essays on Environment
An environment essay explores aspects related to the surrounding nature, such as the elements it consists of, their dynamics, how these elements interact with and influence each other, the fragile equilibrium in ecosystems and how human activities disturb this equilibrium either indirectly (for instance, by determining an increase in Earth’s temperature) or directly, through unsustainable resource exploitation: through careless hunting, fishing, intensive agriculture, deforestation, pollution. This topic is highly relevant because humans have already caused massive problems which not only destroyed many ecosystems but which can also endanger our own species. One example of this is how rising global temperatures and climate change can flood coastal cities, melt glaciers and polar ice, dry out bodies of drinking water.
