The year is 2100. You're sitting alone, wet with sweat, in your stuffy living room. The air is hot and heavy. However, it's still better than going out of the house. It's a lot worse out there. Opening the front door is like opening a giant oven. Nusantara, Indonesia's capital on Kalimantan Island where you live, has long been a "ghost town".
The island of Borneo, once known as the home to the "Earth's lungs", now looks like a scene from hell. Countless abandoned mines dot the landscape, with only a little bit of forest left. Animals have gone extinct. Only a handful of humans have survived. For decades now, people have started leaving for more liveable places. Some decided to stay, only to die from heatstroke.
You try to be grateful. At the very least, you were born and raised in Nusantara, not in Jakarta. The former capital city was completely submerged a few years ago. Global warming's effects coupled with unchecked development, which were always played down by your grandparents, turned out to be more severe than anticipated.
The Earth's surface temperature has increased by 4.4 °C since the preindustrial era, in line with the worst scenario forecast by scientists in 2021. Average sea level has risen by 2 meters, triggering extreme floods and displacing more than 40 million people across the globe. Oh, and another thing: Climate change has caused 83 million heat-related deaths over the past 80 years.
All that makes you wonder, "How did we get here?" You remember reading a news piece on an international treaty aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 to 2 °C. If you're not mistaken, the treaty was adopted by nearly 200 parties in Paris, France at the end of 2015.
You're intrigued to surf the internet. You start hopscotching from one news site to another. You're curious to find out why Indonesia was so adamant about keeping its coal mining industry going despite the worsening climate crisis. Who were the people who benefited the most from the country’s huge coal deposits?
Looking at the answers, you're suddenly lost for words.
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