global warming and nature

Early this morning, as I prepare for the eight o’clock mass, it is raining like hell. As I get my clothes on, suddenly it stopped and while walking to go to the church, it rained again. The worse is just it ruined the procession for the feast of Christ the King. It was crazy for that to happen everyday here in our town in Cavite. You don’t know what the weather will be for just a single day. You can’t count the number of times weather has changed for just a day. And I don’t think it is just happening here in our town but most of the country, even the world. And it’s not just the rain, the extreme heat of the sun is also a major change here. Back then, because the town is situated near Tagaytay, the people can go out at noon without any umbrella because of the warm but moist environment. As the years go by, people started complaining about a very blazing hot morning till afternoon and the breeze of the wind is missing, making it worse.

As I recall my elementary days, it is fun to play under the rain during the wet season, it is safe back then. As my high school day came, I describe the rain as “unsafe” because of its “magnitude” in terms of the volume it pours. You can’t see any children playing in the rain, not wanting to experience being pounded by extreme wind and rain conditions. And it is only an ordinary rain, what more if typhoon days came, it is simply scary to think what may happen.

As I watch the documentary film “SIGNOS”, just like Al Gores’ “An Inconvenient Truth” and the other one by Leonardo de Caprio, I can see the reaction of the people being their house, family and self destroyed by our nature. The sufferings they are experiencing is unexplainable until you experienced it. There is no one to blame but humans, their overuse of resources and continuous destruction of nature. It is true that nature is seeking revenge on us. I think that if we don’t think and start replenishing the “lost” piece of nature that we took, we will all be suffering. Like in a town in the film, with over a 50 hectares of landmass and now, only five hectares remain. And the Artex in Malabon, I have never seen any place like that, except for Venice but it is like that for a long time. It saddens me to see people struggling to survive but they have no choice. The film is selective of the places, just the worse cases, but who knows in the future, it is the whole world.

Upon answering the quiz in myfootprint.org, everything that we do is affecting the nature. The worsening situation of the world is not a joke. We are affected, as the economic crisis of the world is down, for me it is connected to nature. Nature is seeking revenge on us. Solutions on the problem are not being taken into full seriousness of the government. No one in the government, in massive terms, is using these methods to minimize the effects of global warming. Every single thing we do affects the outcome of the nature gives on us. And if we do nothing about it, no one knows the real “thing” that will happen ten years from now. I feel bad on our government because it lacks the effort of giving the people proper information on what is happening in the nature, not just information but solutions. But who am I to blame the government if we are the ones who are not responding to the call of nature.

If everyone started to conserve energy, the effects will minimize. It is our duty to regain the loss what we had done to the nature. Conserve electricity by turning off the plugs of the appliances when not in use. Reuse and recycle the plastics we have in our home, for plastics decompose for a very long time. The wrappers of candy should be thrown in the proper place, simple yet we always forget. Use your chemical energy, walk when the place you are going is not that far. It lessens your expenses and yet it is healthy to the body. Just ten minutes of brisk walking can reduce the rate of heart attack, it sounds silly but just do it. Setting an example, I hope, will inspire others to take action on the current situation of the world. This things we are doing is not just for ourselves, it is also for our destroyed and abused Mother Nature.