Indonesia Cloud Seeding

As climate change affects people's way of life, it is interesting to see how infrastructure will evolve in order to meet the needs of upcoming crises. I think we'll be seeing a difference in how countries develop and use technology, as well as which areas are focused on. This "cloud- seeding", an attempt to try and prevent flooding in Indonesia's capital, a key socio-political area, is really incredible. I  am curious as to if other countries might try and use this tactic. I can even see this technique being utilized in the U.S.. Heavy rainfall, flash floods, and 100- year floods have been occurring much more frequently in recent years in important southern cities like Houston and New Orleans, and I wonder if the U.S. government might implement these cloud seeding techniques to try and minimize damage. As natural disasters such as big storms, hurricanes, and other drastic weather things cause intense short term damage and deaths, there's also the long term affect of how higher water levels will specifically affect the structural integrity of whole cities themselves. Jakarta is sinking due to groundwater extraction, and it's not the only city facing a problem like this. It is predicted that in the near future, New Orleans will sink into the Gulf. West Galveston is slowly being eroded away by the tide. Local and national governments have to face long term issues like these as the inevitable fate slowly creeps closer. Indonesia's status as a developing country does strike an interesting idea though, about the accountability of already developed nations to fight climate change due to their responsibility of causing these issues in the first place. While developed nations paved the way and set an example with stuff like the industrial revolution, there simply isn't a sustainable way for rapidly developing countries with dense populations (such as China or India) to emulate that. Yet they only want the same economic stability as the U.S. or other European countries, so is it fair to push environmental policies on them, and how does that affect developed nations' legitimacy? So as a planet, how do we move forward to sustainably develop, and try to keep the efforts to counter climate change fair and legitimate?

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