I hope that on this day all of you are always healthy and can still carry out activities as usual with great comfort, because here at the end of Indonesia where I am experiencing flooding due to continuous rain for the last 12 hours and causing puddles in several villages that are very close with the outskirts of the city as well as being very close to the river. Usually we say that rain is a blessing for farmers, but excess water is a disaster for everyone so that it hampers the activities of all local residents and will obviously greatly affect their economic cycle.
Some of the residents' land belonging to farmers around here have been flooded and hopefully the rain will stop soon and the puddles can recede soon and I hope the local government will be able to handle this properly soon. Because at the beginning of the year we always feel excessive rain and that really suits the weather here where the rainy season here always occurs at the end to the beginning of the year.
As an ordinary person, I also feel the impact of this because when the floods hit, people who usually sell snacks on the side of the road also cannot carry out their usual activities because they are all busy looking after their own homes and those around them. Hopefully this does not happen at your place and especially elsewhere in Indonesia.
It's sad to see any country hit by these freak weather events, unfortunately as a collective whole humanity are slowly ruining this planet and over population plays a big part in it. Nobody knows where the limits are when it comes to the right population level and if there was less waste it could probably cope with more than it does now, however we are doing so much damage right now there will be a point where it is irreversible. We are driving species to extinction through activities like deforestation, we are helping to acidify the ocean while also over fishing, we create so much unrecyclable waste it is crazy and these are just a few of the problems. As the world continues to heat up, again driven by human activity, we are likely to see more and more extreme events like these.