Comments on: It’s really bad and frightening

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:39:01 +0000

We are going full circle now, they caused it, we are the victim of their follies, and the victim is being faulted while the perpetrators painted as saints, hehehehe.

By: Joe America

Joe America — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:54:14 +0000

Nash,

I wholly agree on population. It is like debt, it burdens future generations with lack of jobs and food. It has nothing to do with abortion. It has everything to do with education and self discipline.

Joe

By: UPnn grad

UPnn grad — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:55:01 +0000

Different folks, different strokes. Some folks are good at the analysis whether fault can be pinned on to GMA, Marcos or Cory, the WTO or the Washington Consensus, and if not them then gotta be those dang invaders from the 16th century — their fault!!
Then there are those — good at making things happen and dealing with “what’s next, identifying obstacles and then people-, material- and other resources to get past them to make progress.”

By: thenashman

thenashman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:51:56 +0000

funnily enough, nagsisigaw-sigaw sina Chiz “Boy Laway” Escudero and Loren Legarda last year about why dams are very conservative when it comes to opening their spillways. “Dapat 230 metres pa lang nagrelease na!” screamed Chiz ‘Boy Laway’ Escudero…nevermind that he did not come prepared with technical data if dams caused the flooding in light of the record-breaking rainfall.

Ngayon, sugurin si Chiz Escudero baka ang laway niya makakareplenish ng hydro dams.

By: thenashman

thenashman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:47:53 +0000

Yes. Small steps.

But this has to go hand in hand with stabilising the population growth rates.

Is the number of typhoons that hit the Philippines every year increasing? Is the intensity of these typhoons that make landfall in the Philippines getting stronger? The data says no. There are simply more Filipinos per square metre now, living in areas that are either crowded, or that should not have been inhabited, that there are more typhoon victims each year. As humans move about, the resources around them gets depleted too. Climate change is the least of their worries in their lifetime.

I attended this DOST event last year where one speaker gave a talk on climate change mitigation and all that but it was blank from the population perspective. So how can you plant trees when you need the land to house people?

By: macapili

macapili — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:28:48 +0000

Headline today: “Reyes to Palace: Declare power crisis in Mindanao”. Who says we are not doing something? OMG!

By: Joe America

Joe America — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:18:13 +0000

Mike H,

Like the US is going to come to the Philippines and build dikes and relocate cities? Going to send shiploads of rice for free? Because the Philippines does nothing and in doing so becomes the beggar nation of Asia whenever a disaster strikes? THAT kind of responsibility?

Small, inexpensive planning steps now, or big, expensive disasters later.

Joe

By: Joe America

Joe America — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:10:52 +0000

Nashman,

I still say to do nothing is to bet the planet. To plan for rising seas, changing micro climates, and more intense storms is prudent. Small, incremental steps now, or big expensive disasters later.

Joe

By: macapili

macapili — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:14:58 +0000

I doubt if any condom will fit the early Visayans. To find out follow this link.

By: thenashman

thenashman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:08:51 +0000

Climate change is a fairly new pursuit in science and the timescales involved are practically longer than one generation’s lifetime.

But even if SOME or ALL of climate science is hard to believe for many (and skepticism is certainly healthy for science), it CANNOT be denied that the RISE in human POPULATION and the resulting human activity is damaging and polluting the environment, perhaps faster than it can heal itself.

So some of us may not believe in global warming and/or its rootcause but I bet everyone can feel the heat of summer, more so now than decades ago when there were still green areas in the metropolises and there were large unpolluted bodies of water.