Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
HAVING grown up in the provinces, one grows accustomed to the flow and ebb of the seasons and with it, the weather. It used to be that the rains precisely started in June, gathered strength through the months and petered out by late October. November to late April were the dry months when it begins cool and ends up blistering with relief ushered in by the arrival of the monsoon; pretty cyclical and rarely deviating. Not so anymore. Rains or rather super typhoons can now occur in any month of the year and barrel through any province with the bullseye anywhere along the eastern seaboard from the Babuyans all the way to the Celebes Sea. It used to be a narrower alley with the Bicol Region as the favorite entry point.
Climate change? Likely, but we and that means almost everyone from government bureaucrats down to the man on the street seems to be in a state of denial. In my mind, what we need is an all-of-nation approach to solving the problem. What the government can do, I will leave for a future article, but what the average person can do, I can hopefully offer some suggestions.
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