@CelloMomOnCars Nusantara needs to be understood not as a reaction to climate change, but as a combination of two different trends, both negative: the Transmigrasi program sending out Javans to the rest of Indonesia to act as, essentially, settlers amidst the local population; and the general hostility of both nationalists and populists to large cities, which violate their sense of rural-national values. "We must decentralize, the capital city is too big" has been a common trope for generations.
Paolo Bacigalupi's speculative fiction novel, The Windup Girl (which I teach in my Dystopian fiction class), is set in Bangkok, Thailand, where global warming and sea-level rise has caused the city to erect a massive seawall holding the rising waters back.
This novel was published a mere 14 years ago.
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