Comments on: Beyond “Earth Hour”: Some new things I’ve learned

By: Rosa

Rosa — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:00:35 +0000

So many things to clean up in the Philippines. Last time I went home, got my asthma re-activated because of too much particulate in the air courtesy of smokebelching cars and jeepneys. Then I noticed a lot of burning of garbage in the neighborhood. Then I learned that a lot of houses, domestic waste just get dumped into the rivers. Visited a place where I grew up and saw the tailings pond that has been around for years and years while all the gold and silver was mined for US investors for nearly a century. Where to begin?

There should be expiry date on jeepneys and must pass a test for emissions
Barangay captains should inspect all houses to make sure that there is proper waste disposal in place.
Fine for all violators
Education of young minds on sustainability and environment
A fund for planting trees and tax credit for environmental donations
Rehabilitation funds for mines and periodic checks even if the mines have closed down
Higher taxes on sin vices such as cigarettes to be directed to environment
Sermon of priest about environmental responsibilities of citizenry

These are some ideas floating in my brain but something has to be done if the Phil. has to be cleaned up

By: GabbyD

GabbyD — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:46:31 +0000

oh, one question:

“Heaney’s most controversial statement in the lecture which floored the US diplomats in the Chuck Parsons ballroom is this

“Overseas migration of Filipino workers has saved the Philippine environment!””

any proof? was it convincing?

By: Tasio

Tasio — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:35:52 +0000

Our country is blessed with diversity of plants and animal species.
We have to protect the environment. OFWs or not, the good environment
of the country is the only good inheritance that we can give to the
next generation. North Korea is a starving country, that tries to
produce nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Il is a crazy leader. His people
are starving. and he wants to research for Rocket launch missiles
disguised as communication satellite. Our Filipino Communists should
take notice on this kind of government that they are fighting. You
are hungry and cannot complain. At least, even when we are hungry
we can shout at our leaders.

By: vonjobi

vonjobi — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:58:13 +0000

hi, thanks to your comment on libraries, i came up with this:
FO: Philippine Journal of Science (1906-1949) – http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/04/fo-philippine-journal-of-science-1906.html

i hope you find it useful =)

By: GabbyD

GabbyD — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:11:03 +0000

i agree. laws can sometimes ignore realities and constraints.

so, hospital wastes are going where now? landfills? i thought i would be obvious to exempt hospital wastes from rules governing HH and other kinds of commercial wastes

By: Blackshama

Blackshama — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:09:02 +0000

Actually the Philippine Congress parroted the environmental Mantra from California! yeeeeeeeeesh!

By: Blackshama

Blackshama — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:07:59 +0000

That’s exactly what I thought at first when I heard Jeff Reid inform us of the aerosols. :-) Now does Chip Tsao have permed hair? LOL! :-)

By: Blackshama

Blackshama — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:06:08 +0000

Well you won’t have water if it doesn’t rain. BTW don’t forget deforestation went overdrive under American rule.

Also Americans are also dying and will die from diseases they thought curable as a result of global environment changes. Think of multidrug resistant TB.

Again you are shackled by narrow minded thinking.

By: Karl Garcia

Karl Garcia — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:21:52 +0000

To avoid any disconnect.

By complying to the clean air act, we neglect an actionable way of managing our watse. So we tried to comeup with this clean air act, but what about our garbage.
The last time I heard the environment does not only involve the atmosphere.

so I somehow agree with this comment:

……”if you continue to parrot the environmental mantra from the West. Pinoys will die, not from climate change, but from bacteria, cholera, intestinal flu, salmonella, etc.”

By: Vin

Vin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:33:21 +0000

So that explains the changes in the climate pattern?