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Can you comprehend the enormity of 200 tons? That’s how much
garbage we collect in this city, every single day. Awesome, isn’t it?
account for our garbage. Evidence is clear and eerily familiar. The great
were obliterated.
by Republic Act 9003, our country’s Solid Waste Management law. But 10
years after its signing, R.A. 9003 is far from fully enforced. Even now that
our city is finally building a sanitary landfill, I fear that our garbage problem
will linger, simply because government reneged on its duty to teach us how
a heavy price. Our ignorance will throw us right into the deathly path of
more and even mightier floods. Our ignorance will endure the unmitigated
build-up of methane gas until one day…BOOM!!! Let us not forget Glorietta
2. That was unmanaged methane gas. We want to save the Earth, we cannot
Our failure to segregate garbage will render the appeal to reuse and
products are manufactured, triggering more and more CO2 emission. More
than methane gas, the most widespread greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide.
colossal storms to brew. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the
surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico had in fact risen, but by a mere
two degrees Fahrenheit. In human terms, that rise in temperature is like the
shift from feeling fine to feeling feverish. Global warming brings on climate
change. Many of you have farms. You know exactly what that means: very
little rain in one year, too much rain the next. The increased occurrence of El
Niño and La Niña weather spells is staring us down, and our poor brothers
can only stare back with dazed eyes and empty stomachs, their crops
emissions.
But can we, in all conscience, put blame solely on these countries?
Our penchant for imported brands constrains the shipping industry to emit
more CO2 into the atmosphere. And so, en route to your loving arms, that
luxurious Louis Vuitton bag from Paris released more CO2. So did those
Gucci loafers from Florence. Your Levi’s from China. Your Nike shoes
Earth and save lives. Within each of us lies the discipline to reduce
consumption, to reuse and recycle, to minimize CO2 emission, to keep waste
(PUT ON ECO BAG). Let us wear our eco-bag like a badge of honor.
Henceforth, let us not be ashamed of it, let us not be bothered by it. Let us
carry it the way Jesus carried his cross, with the highest purpose, with
Save Earth, save lives. Dear Lord, if this be the Johnian advocacy, I