by Klaus Doring
Anything goes? Yes, it seems so: illegal logging, natural disasters, improper disposal of garbage, climate change, melting icebergs, “my neighbour goes on burning rubber and other stuff” (GRABE!), plastic and other poison waste products… .
Gosh, I am really so mad. Guys, when will you stop doing this? Or, are you waiting for the next tsunami taking away your family and all your belongings and properties?
My niece showed me a brochure entilted “Q&A Questions and Answers on YOUR ecosystem – mentioning and explaining 365 (!) reasons to stand up for Mother Nature! And, to be counted as “Barkada ng Kaliksan”. It’s really a primer on enviroment care, produced by the Kinaiyahan Foundation, Inc. and BARog KA likupan DAbaw, Inc. (BARKADA) with a foreword by Elisea G. Guzon, former secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
I studied the valuable brochure while still having the fumes of burned poison garbage in my nostrils and with the last natural disaster news still in my mind!
Anything goes! It seems for sure! Why should one think about the eco-system and its structures? Or, solar-energy and life on earth and why it should or could be protected? The effects of global warming can be seen more and more, but deforestation and profits kill the thoughts and deeds about the value of forests and how to protect them!
People, awake!
Fertilizer and its problems are known, but who really cares? Pesticides and their problems are very well known, but who really cares?
Anything goes? How do we handle major consumers of water managing water resources? Are we overusing grandwater?
Climate change, green-house effect, gases that pollute the atmosphere, acid rains, and biodiversity are foreign words to these people, who continue to destroy our globe and provoke the next tsunami or any natural disaster.
The above-mentioned brochure even mentioned the top 30 Environment Issues in the 21st century. Great and really amazing! I wish and pray for many followers! For our next generations hopefully!!!
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As always, on the spot: Last, but not the least:
Germany’s development minister Dirk Niebel has said Berlin will fail to meet its development aid targets for 2010. He also expressed doubt whether Germany would be able to increase aid to 0,75 of GDP by 2015. As a German expat still thinking about his European (!) home country: distressing!
Germany’s finance minister has called for the creation of a European equivalent to the International Monetary Fund to help eurozone countries like Greece deal with a crippling doest crisis. Great idea, I strongly agree with it.
Icelandic voters have rejected a government proposal to repay 3,9 billion Euros to Great Britain and the Netherlands after the collapse of the Icesave Online Bank. Understandable, or how would you would vote if this happens in the Philippines?
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