Flooding caused by Climate change not by garbage.
By rbrapsing
@rbrapsing (39)
Philippines
August 8, 2012 5:42am CST
Is it really because Filipinos are resilient or is it because of their plain ignorance? This may not be the time to be pointing fingers and directing blames. We have to put a stop blaming ourselves and accept that we are the ones who caused the flooding. The so abused excuse given to us that it is because of our garbage clogging the drainage system is no longer acceptable.
Now is the time to take action. We mean by action is to act on climate change. Not on charities and relief goods. Before we can take action we must first understand what climate change is and what has caused it. The blame is not on us but we are the ones who should act on this.
4 responses
@Fulltank (2882)
• Philippines
8 Aug 12
Hi, my point of view on this topic might not be the same with yours. I had started a similar discussion with the same topic (http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2687805.aspx) and most of my answer is written here. Climate change is simply an effect of what we did to our environment. I think the root cause is caused by humans. We are to blame and man is the cause simply because we took too much from our environment and place too much on it. If man is the problem, would it be true that man is also the solution.
@rbrapsing (39)
• Philippines
8 Aug 12
You are right that this are the effects of the abuse that's been done to the environment. But who exactly you meant by "man"? It is too general, when only a section of humanity that is leading mankind to its total destruction. These victims of the calamity, are they the "man" you are referring to who has ravaged the environment? No they are not.
In fact they are used as an excuse and blamed by the very section of people who has abused mother earth. If you are insinuating a point that mankind should change within themselves first so that they'd no longer do harm to the environment and ecology, we must identify first exactly, what harm has mankind done and who lead them to do it to mother nature? These victims are not the ones that we need to change but the those that has exploited humanity and the environment for almost three centuries now.
@cagampan1991 (364)
• Philippines
28 Sep 12
Both the climate change and the garbage improperly disposed are the cause of flooding here in the Philippines. Climate change caused the heavy rains that we experience in the past months. If we were (some) only responsible on how we dispose our waster properly we should have prevented the flooding here in the Philippines. It's not just the climate change, we could have prevented the flooding caused by the heavy rains is the water could only easily pass to the large bodies of waters.
@asdomencil (4265)
• Philippines
9 Aug 12
This is one good point. You are right that garbage alone is not the main reason for flooding in some ares. For example, knowing that the water that runs thru the river came from the high land ares like mountains. If these mountains have enough trees that can hold the water given by the rain, severe flooding will be prevented in low lying areas even there are clogged drainage because there are only few amounts of water that will flow enough to hold by the river because the trees holds them in the mountains.
Blaming is not the right time for now. Instead of pointing whos to blame, they should find ways to prevent this situation from recurring.
@Mickzrodge1116 (61)
• Philippines
23 Sep 12
yes. garbage doesn't cause climate change but it aggravates the EFFECTS of climate change. This is the strongest explanation of why we have to work on reducing our trash and disposing them properly.
