APRIL 22 is Earth Day. We won’t grow tired reminding ourselves of our grave moral responsibility to protect Mother Earth.
One way to do this is mitigate carbon emissions. Climate Change, which upsets global temperatures and the balance of the global climate, is primarily caused by the warming of the earth due to carbon dioxide emissions with the extensive use of burning of fossil fuels, such as gasoline, coal and oil.
The Germanwatch Risk Index at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Lima, Peru identified the Philippines as the “country most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.”
Also, a UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report stated, “Things are worse than we had predicted. High levels of warming will result in magnified drought risks which will add to water stress and will in turn have consequences for agriculture and staples such as rice, wheat and corn.”
If not drought, we are having super strong typhoons. In 2013, the strongest typhoon ever recorded in history, super typhoon “Yolanda”, devastated the country resulting to over 6,000 deaths.
Thus we make this appeal on behalf of our battered Mother Earth. We can do simple things for her such as withdrawal from our wasteful consumption habits. This will provide some relief to our beleaguered environment and drive home the point that the solution to extreme consequences of climate change would be the disciplined use of energy like electricity and vehicle fuel, reduction of water and food wastage, and promotion of alternative clean energy.
There is a need to protect the environment and address the worsening impact of climate change.
