CD 201 class (2nd sem, AY 2009-10) advocacies on climate change

We can do something, if we act now.

After my report on "Climate Change and Globalization", our class came up with individual advocacies to fight the frightening climate change. As much as I want to summarize my report, which took me three hours to present, I have time and space constraints, and so I will just enumerate our answers for the said activity.

Mine:

• Addressing climate change requires social energy and networking among institutions and players around the globe to act within an interconnected system of parts where each one has a vital role to play, each voice is right, every right is represented.

For Fleureeza Marie A. Liwanag:

• Promote 3Rs (Reduce, Re-use, Recycle)
• Plus an additional "R" for Refuse to using anything that may contribute to more wastes (like plastic bags.

For Kat Cordova:

• Plant a tree.
• Recycle - avoid using plastics, reuse paperbags.
• On policies, the government must strictly implement the Clean Air Act. Smoke belchers should be punished, companies who violate must be closed.
• Practice walking instead of commuting or using vehicles that burn fossil fuels.
• To those who want to engage in business, invest on renewable energy projects (fengshue says it's good)

For Ryan Israel T. Advincula:

• Revive the Philippines' natural resources like rainforests, mountains, oceans, etc.
• Create protected and/or areas off-limits to industrialization such as reservation parks.
• Recycle and segregate.

For Sol Lawagan:

• Be part and be involved in fighting climate chnage for our children and our children's children!
• Save the Earth for tomorrow's sake!
• Act now, be Earth lover!

For Karla Futatsuya:

• Increase use of ecological products
• (Since economy affects the environment, companies should change their products. Further, it helps people to increase consciousness toward environment. If many people bought only ecological products, use of unecological products would decrease)

Our advocacies may look simple, yet I would like to believe that if all of us would start taking simple steps toward combating climate change, it will make a significant difference to the status of the world at present. As I've said, it would take "social energy" to do this.

To summarize, our professor said it all...

For Prof. Elmer Ferrer:
The three most important concepts of addressing the problem...

• presence
• mindfulness
• values formation

For next meeting, I'm looking forward to hearing other pressing issues that the world is now facing. Be it simple or complicated, we have to do our individual share toward resolving it.