My friend also told me that his university will cut the less important programs first, to focus on the essential: hard sciences. He believes this will be the most widely adapted method of downsizing.
A good friend of mine has a management position at a regional university here in Japan. He told me that the Ministry of Education is going round holding seminars on the future of higher education in all of the prefectures, by turn, inviting a representative of each university. The theme is honest and quite reassuring: "In twenty years's time half of you universities represented here today, will have ceased to exist, due to population declines. It is inevitable. Good luck." There will be no population replacement to save them and they know it.
The recent flooding in Indonesia was turbocharged by intensive deforestation. In the worst hit area, Batang Toru in north Sumatra there were seven logging companies active (and no-one knows how much illegal logging on top of that), a hydro-dam project and a gold mine. 700 dead. And it will get worse and worse with time because the logging happens on the best terrain least vulnerable to soil loss first, then the mountain sides where the effects are really catastrophic. Once these forests are cut down (give it a few more years maybe) it will take enormous resources and willpower (that Indonesia doesn't have and never will) to reforest the destroyed mountain soils. Irresponsible resource use, unsustainable population expansion and low quality governments will mean unprecedented ecocide. Climate change have nothing to do with this, but it is a convenient scapegoat to not do anything while lining your pockets with various low effect climate scams.
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