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Its inclusion as one of the WQMAs signifies the government’s commitment to providing clean water, which ”is a basic right of every Filipino,” Paje said.
It is really good to know that the government has greatly commited into saving one of the most major supply of resources in Mindanao, the 35km Taguibo River in Agusan del Norte.
Mount Pinatubo Eruption was on June 15, 1991
I was born in September 12, 1991. I dont have ANY recollection whatsoever of the mountains eruption, maybe i've heard of it while i was inside my mom but i forgotten about it :D.
The eruption caused a lot of distress on the indigenous aetas living just by the foot of the mountain. The ashes of the mountain brought different climate on the country or even the world. Also there was a storm coming on that same time that the volcano erupted, so the damage was exponential.
Secret Tectonic-ques!
(Coined from secret techniques!)
Well, this is not really secret but the land moves! Well technically, it's the tectonic plates (enough with the puns!)
The tectonic plates theory explains how crustal plates move around the surface of the earth, and it is responsible in the explanations for geologic events such as volcanoes and earthquakes and processes the form, transform and destroy rocks.
The motion of plates are divided in three categories: Convergent: Where two plates are moving toward one another, they form a convergent plate boundary.Divergent: Where two plates are moving away from each other, they form a divergent plate boundary.Transform: Where two plates are moving alongside one another, they form a transform boundary.
AIR POLLUTION
The greatest contributor of air pollution is burning of fossil fuels. However, it's also the primary means for generating and transporting energy. The cheapest and most reliable way of providing electricity involves power plants that burn fossil fuels such as coal, which is transported to the plant using fuel also refined from fossils.
This burning of fossil fuels results produces greenhouse gasses produces green-house gasses that is the great cause of climate change. And by now, we have seen and felt the effects of climate change(or heard, whichever you like :) )
Philippine Laws Concerning the Environment
Laws are made by the government. And laws are made to regulate and to set the boundaries of people or society. In this case, the laws that concerns the environment are meant to protect the environment itself. To regulate and to set boundaries-- of society.
This may be a cliche, but most of these environmental laws are easily ignored by local government units and the people too. For an example the illegal logging in Philippine provinces is chronic and when there's a storm there will be floods and landslides. And this is the effect of ignoring such laws, countless deaths and destruction of properties.
It is good to know that our country is celebrating a month-long event which is the Philippine Environment Month. This is the time that we should be aware of our environment-- to protect and to nurture. To protect and nurture the same entity that is doing the same for us.
Also, these ecobags will be helpful in pushing the green propaganda. We can use this when buying groceries at the supermarket or the local market for our sari-sari store.
Start of the Green Revolution.
The decisions i've made, well actually quite a few years ago, is to plant tress. This might be a cliche but i only want some past time in planting these small plants, but right now, i know that my small decision can make a big impact in sustaining Earth and help the whole carbon footprint thing to lessen even just by a microscopic amount.
The State of the World
What is the state of the world? or the right question is the state of the people in the world? When we say world, should we really be pointing at the physical ground we are living in? As i've said on my first blog i can see that Earth is not the one who's actually dying.. it is us, the inhabitants, are the ones dying. Earth has been here for if not billions, hundreds of trillions of years. What we are really concern about is the condition of living in the world.
As cited in the book of the State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, we are using far more than the earth could give. I've never been good great with numbers or figures but the facts that this book is giving is already a slap to the face of it's inhabitants. That if we demand more than the supply could give we might eventually speed up our own doom.
This miniclip has been very fun watching. I was a fan of the whole film since i was a kid. The pill has been iconic to me and the Matrix related punchlines have been really hilarious. But more importantly, the message this clip gives to us. It's not about the jokes, it's about sending a message.. :)
We are living in a lie. Most of our meat that we buy in the supermarket are meat that has been bombarded with antibiotics, and haven't felt real freedom. Now i know why the chicken that we eat in the province is a lot tastier than the chicken that we eat here in the metro is bland. The "manok tagalog" is a free-range chicken, grown in a free environment and fed by natural food.. it is tastier than a factory grown chicken. Best for tinola and adobo, or even fried chicken.
We should stop supporting factory meats! It is not healthy and the consequences is far more greater than a quick and easy money. They heartlessly confine these animals, they spread incurable diseases and they pollute their surroundings for profit. These industry agents should be stop.
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Consumerism!-- The Story of Stuff
"You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet"
The world resources are limited. We really are living on a finite planet-- a rigid and limited planet.. and we as inhabitants are consuming more than the planet can produce. If we run a system that is only consuming and don't fill up the resources, we are really bound to have a resource outage, because the planet we are living in have limited supply and we as the people who are living here and keep producing future consumers are infinite.
We are the consumers and the stuff we buy-- where are those coming from?
It is cited that products that we buy is made from resources if not from the producer's country itself, is in third world countries. Philippines is a third-world country.
What resources can producers exploit in these countries? Well it can be raw materials: wood, minerals, metals-- and workers. Producers will exploit third world countries' people. The work forces that is being paid at very low rate and worst working conditions. These are a few backlashes that these stuff are doing and this is really the main concern of consumerism. It's affecting the people indirectly, the poor still being poor and the rich have their pockets be gigantic from all the profits/blood money.
Im a consumer.. and this broaden my views on trashing my stuff and littering. Some of the gadgets that i use might be the ones who are killing a few family in China, or Vietnam or Africa. And this makes me feel at guilt.
Too little, Too late?-- The 11th Hour
Why Eleventh(11th) Hour?
The eleventh hour is an expression that means "at the last possible moment". The movie with the same title is a documentary about how we, the humans have so little time to save the earth or rather too late to react.
As humans, we are small-- compared to the greatness and vastness of the earth, our only home, we are just tiny specks of life form We can be counted as animals too, but thanks to the human mind that we are able to think. The ability to think, that's what makes us unique than any other being that treads Earth. And also that ability is the one that is majorly responsible to the destruction of our home.
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."- Frederick Douglass
I can think of 1 great factor that lead our home in this situation-- and that is progress.
In my opinion, progress is undeniably required in any society or group, or a country or even the whole world. Progress makes our life easier, comfortable and adjustable for our own needs and a lot of profit. Profit is next to progress and this is what major companies, or any company is aiming to have, huge amount of profit. And thus, we humans, because of profit we go for progress and progress leads to our own destruction.
In actuality, we do not need to worry about the earth. Earth has been here for billions of years. Our home has been subjected to earthquakes, volcanos, heavy storms and even asteroids. The earth is not being destroyed by humans and that is not what we fear. We are fearing an eradication of our own kind. Earth has a way to heal itself. Humans are just residing in it. To earth, we are just a case of bad fleas and earth can just shake us off. What are the results of too much human influence on the earth? Heavy storms, floods etc. Those events has already happened to earth. What we fear is that if that happens, all the progress we might have done will be gone or worse we all will suffer in our own doing.
This is not worth any struggle and it is pointless to progress if we are heading this direction.
It's better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.