Government efforts to mitigate climate change remain mere rhetoric, while the public approach to the issue varies according to wealth, says a leading environmental advocate.
Chalid Muhammad, the chairman of the Indonesian Green Institute, said that changes in the weather were becoming increasingly unpredictable, affecting the livelihoods of many people, particularly fishermen and farmers, who are the most vulnerable.
“There are two different groups of the society with different awareness levels. The middle- to upper-class people in the cities are getting greener. Even though this seems to be pretty exclusively elitist, this is good,” he said.
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