Its the math--not politics! Our trouble with more rainy or more powerful cyclones will persist unless changes to curtail melting polar ice happens. The more industrialized nations need to cut carbon outputs. It depends a lot on them. Most of them have mostly committed only to mitigate global warming effects--shush! For our part, positivism cannot change the threats of more climate change worsening the number and intensity of calamities each year. The environmental situation does not depend on personal positivism but on practiced commitments to remove factors that melt polar ice. But what can we do for our part? We need to address infrastructure matters that prevent destruction of roads, and bridges and design houses that better adapt to harsher climate. Floods will be the norm of days to come whether cyclones are strong with winds or just one that brings more rain. Even monsoon rains and mere low pressure weather disturbances bring us worrisome floods, anyway. In summer, remember, afternoon thunderstorms have done as much problems with floods and heavy rain. It really pours when it rains in our country and then it floods. Thats the way it is. We will soon also need to adjust our mode of transportation. That will need to change. And if government is lackadaisical at taking initiatives to anticipate what changes we need to adapt to, then much depends for us to survive harsher climate by doing our own measures to adjust to more floods and more powerful winds as Yolanda delivered. Use more imagination to meet threats of disasters more adequately. The next calamity will be MORE than the past. That kind of adjustment must be part of our preparations. If we just expect the same as last years maybe it wont be enough. Beyond what we can do, would you pray and prepare to meet our Creator? I asked myself that question in a what-if-manner if Yolanda passed Metro Manila directly instead of the Visayas. Most of us would find it beyond our means and find it hard to build safer homes in the summer months before more rains set in by the next rainy season. Some of us dont even have a real grasp of what a safer home is. Thats the sadder truth than politicos who pretend to be good leaders. At best, we can pray for each other and ask that the next stronger typhoon will pass this country far on the side. And I hope you believe in prayer, because ice in the polar regions continues to melt. It goes to us as more rain or stronger typhoons. Everywhere the sea levels rise and elsewhere there are more tornadoes or more snow storms. Warming global climate melts the ice AT THE POLES. It brings that extra water in some form to WHERE WE ARE. Water we subtract from the poles adds to what we have elsewhere. Its the math--not politics. @Earl1901
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:10:54 +0000
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