Jakarta: A warning?

As sea levels rise due to global warming, what does the future
hold for our coasts?


Already threatened by rising tides, Jakarta, the capital of
Indonesia, is in a perilous situation - it is sinking. We join
reporter Resty Woro Yuniar on a crumbling sea wall to hear the
reality of living under sea level, and speak with the engineer
responsible for fighting flooding from both the sea and the
mountains. We hear about plans to abandon the city as a capital,
and try again on drier land.


Author Jeff Goddell describes being next to the glacier that
could show just how high the oceans could rise. Solutions in the
past have involved building our way out of this problem, but some
locations will be too expensive to save. Is Jakarta a warning to
us all?