Скачать или смотреть Struggling with sea level rise: Interview with Kristi in Semarang, Java, Indonesia

Day 45 of my no-fly trip from Italy to Papua New Guinea
I know that slow travel offers the incomparable opportunity to see with my own eyes how most people live on this planet. I am keen to visit people living on the coastline in Semarang, about 500km east of Jakarta, as they have been exposed to constant flooding in recent years. Thanks to Couchsurfing, I have a very kind local friend who can act as an interpreter for me. She drives me there on her scooter.

As a priviliged European man, the least I can do is to do my best to tell their stories, hoping that other priviliged people living in the "global North" realise that this is the flip side of the coin of their travelling by private jets, their use of air conditioning when the summer gets too hot, their use of fossil fuels to warm their houses when renewable energy alternatives are available.

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