Jakarta – Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) sought actions from Indonesian scientists and politicians to tackle climate change following United States President Joe Biden’s current statement that Jakarta would be immersed within a years due to increasing water level.
” We should not take President Biden’s declaration lightly,” MUI Deputy Chairman Anwar Abbas noted in an official declaration in Jakarta on Monday.
Abbas deemed the researchers’ caution and response to the environment modification concern as essential to dismiss any misconception of inactiveness till it was too late.
The MUI deputy chairman likewise called on world leaders and researchers, particularly those taken part in matters to deal with environment change and global warming, to take unified actions to study and manage them.
” It (action on climate modification) is their contribution to the world and likewise (an advice to) the government on how to manage the issue,” he remarked.
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Abbas mentioned that environment change was caused by the quick development of industries and advancement, thereby leading to a fast boost in carbon emissions, spike in temperatures worldwide, and influence on the climate.
” This plainly will have a devastating impact on the world, particularly on our country Indonesia and likewise the nationwide capital Jakarta,” he cautioned.
Abbas pointed to continued land subsidence in Jakarta every year while the sea levels had kept increasing due to ice melting in the North and South pole regions at a nearly equal rate.
He got in touch with the central and regional federal governments to also coordinate to relieve the impacts of climate modification on Indonesia and join hands with other countries to tackle it.
” As a country, we are anticipated to be prepared and present alternative actions and services to expect the dangers and impacts of environment change, especially to prevent the concern from impacting our nation and the nationwide capital Jakarta,” Abbas stated.
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