Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Jakarta’s Horrifying Environment


Fresh air, green trees, clear blue sky, and other heartwarming views are the scenery that you would rarely find in Jakarta these days. In addition, the flood that happening annually doesn’t make the scenery better either. Trash everywhere, pathological bacteria flying about the environment, and so many other depressing facts of Jakarta’s condition are the matters that I want to share with you. I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t had your breath taken away by what I’m going to write because you may have read article of this theme so many times. So, in order to make it simple, I’ll only write two of the main pollution that you will find easily in Jakarta.

The first part of environment that has been deteriorated gradually is the air. Smoke from the industry and automobile – the non-hybrid one – are the main source of air pollution. Furthermore, the vehicles that should have been banned because of its level of exhaust gas are still wandering in Jakarta’s street, producing more toxic in less time. Carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and other poisonous gas molecules are generated to the air and ruining both people and environment. The quality of oxygen, which is our fuel to stay alive, is bad enough to give cancer to human ’s lungs. It may not be instantly. But if people don’t get a change regularly of the air they breath, the risk of that disease would be the final chapter of their life.

Water is the second polluted elements in Jakarta. Even so, the impact to our life can’t be underestimated as well. 60% of our body consists of water – some commercial teach us enough of it –, yet it hasn’t changed the tradition of Jakarta’s people, throw the garbage to the place it considered to be the right one, the river. River with brown color and covered with trash on its surface isn’t exactly the one that will help Jakarta to overcome its flood problem. The material contained in the water is as horrible as its look. Bacterias, hard metals, and other dangerous chemical matters are dissolved in it. Those matters produced not only by household waste but also industrial waste. Even though the water is polluted heavily, people around the river still using it in daily activities, causing them to have diseases such as diarrhea, dermal diseases, malaria, on many others.

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