For the last ten years, there are things that I noticed that had completely changed around me. Major things that I sometime would just want to rush to the nearest exit signs. But these does not happen on a daily basis. Everyone experiences having cold feet, I guess. And one can do and think about is the easiest way to escape. I guess it is a learning process going through these major changes and having different ways of facing them. One could face it with one’s head held high, while others would just crash and burn.
1 dived in:
Hi,
This is Gladys Arañez and I’m one of the volunteers for Design Against The Elements. We are asking for your support to please help us spread our message in raising awareness re: Philippine Climate Adaptability Challenge. Please take time to visit the links below and please post comments and ratings. Below also is a message from our Executive Director, Illac Diaz.
Feel free to ask questions. You can reach me on my email: gladys_79@yahoo.com
Many, many thanks! :)
http://www.spot.ph/2009/11/09/marc-abaya-karl-roy-lead-musicians-in-a-song-about-climate-change/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxhqROh8q4
Climate change is real. Addressing climate change requires a mix of mitigation and adaptation. This requires more mitigation for industrialized countries and more adaptation for developing countries.
This can be translated into one simple scenario : While the industrialized world continues to send up tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, whether or not we blur the amounts through carbon credits,
hopes are fading for those who will be receiving the sharp end of the Damocles sword; the developing world. The urgency is to realize that this is not going to stop at 350 ppm, or even double at 600 ppm, the Philippines has to realize that despite all the petitions and feel good campaigns of dreams for a climate stabilized world, real solutions need to be done. We have to get to the part where we learn
to start dealing with this. The country is located right beside the warmest parts of the ocean that is in the perfect storm of vulnerable coastlines, intense winds, and an observation of growing dumping of
large amounts of rain. We need to live in a world where climate will hit the poorest of the poor first, regardless of where they live, it will test our resiliency as a city, as a village, as a community, and
specially as a people. This song is dedicated to the awareness that dealing with one ONDOY is not the victory, but a climate of change will be the battle of this generation.
Illac Diaz
Executive Director
Design Against The Elements
Post a Comment