Philippines Facing Climate Change

Since elementary days , maybe, some of you like me, always heard about how to manage proper segregation of waste materials, plant more trees, burning garbage and etc. We keep on hearing same teachings and reminders inside and outside the school but we never tend to learn how to do it properly. I don’t know if we are just too lazy or we just don’t give a care about it.

As years passed, out of concern, we didn’t notice that our environment suffers from our wrong acts. Climates have changed considerably during the earths history. Several theories have been advanced to explain climatic change overtime. There are many factors that affects climate, yet for me, man has the ability to influence climate change.

Since through the years, human have made many changes in the environment. They have cut down trees and planted crops in their place. The fast growing population has something to do with the environment. . And because of the globalization being made more industrial plants were being built. Industrial plants fill the air with smoke and dangerous chemicals, pollute the lakes and streams with waste and toxic by products, and wear out or damage parts of the surrounding land. In short, human inventions brought about progress, but destroyed the natural environment.

From the past years, Philippines frequently experience different types of typhoon which leads to the destruction of so much more infrastructures and the cause of the death of million Filipinos.

These environmental problems have endangered not only humans, but also most of other living creatures. Climate change, the term is used to refer specifically caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate change that may have resulted as part of Earths natural processes, and the differentiation of these two causes, human impact vs. natural resources is a key component of the climate change debate. People do not always have control over their environment as some changes are brought about our activities.

So, even though it sounds irritating, always put in our mind that “Nasa Sa Atin ang Kaligtasan ni Inang Kalikasan”. We should help each other, we do our part an not just to rely all the responsibilities to our environmentalist who are seeking ways in which human can live and prosper without damaging the environment for future generations. I hope that we are learning from the calamities that we are experiencing right now.