Global Warming Solutions Advocacy
"Everybody talks about weather but nobody ever does anything about it" famous Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, said. This statement is correleted with universal threat, global warming. But first what is global warming?
Global warming is a catastrophic disorder that leads to increasing atmospheric temperature of Mother Earth. It is principally the primary consequence of the anthropogenic activities of mankind that can lead to a detrimental and destructive type of greenhouse effect. These anthropogenic effects include mainly the burning of fossil fuels such as gasoline and natural gas, incineration of human wastes and even the vital process of exhalation. By the way greenhouse effect itself is never harmful but when it happens that it reaches and passes the demarcational verge of its utility, it becomes capable of wiping out the existence of life on earth which in short is the climax of the global warming.
Have you ever heard of the St. Bernard, Southern Leyte tragedy? How about the violent typhoons that attacked Catanduanes and Bicol? These are only two of the numerous effects of global warming that when left untreated will become a monster of desruction.
Summer days go longer the way they should be. The Lake Taal and Lake Buhi become more shallow and the ample rivers gone dry. Fishes scarce and the grasses turn brown. Why are these happening? Can we Filipinos still survive the next 50 years? I don’t think so unless one of us moves and unveils to us the sad tendency of the endemicity of mankind then will encourage us to help resolve this impending dark crisis.
Global warming itself is undeniably irreversible. Scientists even think of burying the greenhouse gases but can this solve the problem? Not really because gases would always tend to escape out for they are lighter and less dense than earth.
Thinking of it clearly, there is only one more thing that we Filipinos can do. This is to diverge from the stereotypical way of ignorance about what is happening around us. Let us be aware of our warm surroundings, our depreciating environment. Why don’t we start at simple recycling and stopping backyard burning? Why not walk the short distance instead riding in a private car? If we only respond to the questions positively, we can be insured of a brighter life with a fuller view of mother earth’s threshold and at that point of bliss we then can say that Mark Twain’s stament is only a fictional story.
