FR. SHAY CULLEN, SSC
If you want to know the truth, painful as it is, regarding the once beautiful Philippine rainforests, the lovely valleys, the once pristine coastlines, just google Philippine mining environmental destruction. Immediately you will see dozens of photographs showing the terrible environmental damage seen in the bare denuded mountains, extensive hills and valleys devoid of vegetation and left vulnerable to rain. The water will wash millions of cubic meters of soil into the rivers and streams and poison and destroy lakes and estuaries and cause continuous landslides. Millions of tons of rocks and debris will come roaring down the hills.