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COMMENTARY TO: www.science.org/content/article/ominous-sign-global-warming-feedback-loop-may-be-accelerating-methane-emissions The Makakalikasan Movement calls for more research; specially in the context of Philippine wetlands given the level of uncertainty on methane emissions from wetlands becoming wetter due to climate change that might justify draining, using and in the process destroying wetlands. Applying precautionary principle; despite argument that wetlands methane emissions could be one of the runaway climate impacts, we are in the position that we should keep our wetlands intact and expand them further and let science takes its due course in understanding this phenomenon even more. JOIN to ACT: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ph.wetlands/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikas.education.research.arts.sustainability/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.climate.publichealth.actions/ #PHWetlands #MakakalikasanMovement #Makakalikasan #CimateChangePH Read the original article here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2304559-animal-decline-is-hurting-plants-ability-to-adapt-to-climate-change/
Our Commentary: Makakalikasan reminds all that we are all connected in the web of life. Animal decline is caused by many factors. A major part of it is the ill-effects of climate change. And yet, the effects of this will further cause more acceleration of climate change as demonstrated in this article. This is yet another tell-tale sign of the climate tipping point nearing. ACT NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. JOIN to ACT: https://www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.biodiversity.habitat.conservation/ Read the original article here: https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/01/08/opinion/editorial/lifting-of-mining-ban-a-poor-decision/1828521 Our Commentary: Makakalikasan agrees that lifting the open-pit mining ban is a poor decision. We commit to oppose this! JOIN us ACT: https://www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.naturalresource.patrimony/ MAKAKALIKASAN strongly condemns the lifting of the nationwide ban on open-pit mining by Secretary Cimatu and the DENR. In the face of the worsening impacts of climate change, we believe allowing open-pit mining is a wrong policy for the country. Open-pit mining is the most destructive form of mining and destroys ecosystems for good starting from upstream down to the lowland and all the way to our waterways and marine & coastal communities. Extreme weather conditions causing massive flooding, extended and more severe droughts coupled with sea-level rise puts massive pressure on our already devastated ecosystems. Instead of destroying more; like what open-pit mining will cause, we should instead protect, rehabilitate and conserve as many of our ecosystems as possible.
We will support any and all protests and other actions to oppose this shortsighted decision. JOIN to ACT: Reclaiming Natural Resource Patrimony | Facebook Read the original article here: DENR lifts ban on open-pit mining; anti-mining alliance reactscnnphilippines.com/news/2021/12/28/DENR-lifts-ban-on-open-pit-mining.html MAKAKALIKASAN welcomes the stable prices for organic food despite the current economic recession. However, as this is dependent solely on regular premium price from high-end consumer, increasing production of organic food by farmers still eludes them. And thus, the rest of us, especially the poor masses are missing out on the benefits of healthy, organic food that if only cheap enough and not only for the middle and upper-class consumers to afford would have a sure market among the majority of our poor consumers. Also, the entire nation and humanity as a whole is missing out on the ecological benefits of organic agriculture especially if tied regenerative ecosystem rehabilitation and conservation because precisely organic farming remains bad business for most farmers. The key towards ORGANIC FOOD SOVEREIGNTY is a state policy, supported by sufficient programs that supports that stable, high-end price should no longer be enough for Organic Food. Government subsidy is needed to lower price for more Filipinos so demand then production increases! It should be a no-brainer for a truly pro-poor green government
JOIN to ACT: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.sustainable.agriculture/ Read the original article here: Prices much stable for organic food products MAKAKALIKASAN joins the International Energy Agency (IEA) in raising concerns that while "...(g)rowth in renewable energy is set to hit an all-time record this year, but is still falling "well short" of what is necessary to slash planet-warming emissions". While IEA recommends that "...governments need to ramp up renewables by addressing key barriers to their implementation, including grid integration, insufficient remuneration, social acceptance issues and inconsistent policy approaches", we believed most national renewable energy development national legislations, including the Philippines, National Renewable Energy Law of 2008, after 13 years has largely been driven by private sector development and have failed to reach the level of renewable energy that the world and the country needs. What we need is more state-led renewable energy development. It is the key to addressing the serious backlog we have today. As we enter more closer to the climate disaster tipping point, governments must take it upon themselves to secure drastic renewable energy shift and not rely on privatization as the key driver of this development. We need an update nationalized renewable energy law in the country.
JOIN to ACT: https://www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.renewableenergy.publicworks.housing/ Read the original article here: Renewables are being installed at top speed — but still far too slow to fix the planet, energy watchdog says MAKAKALIKASAN echoes the the analysis of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that the impacts of climate change now affects our daily economy with climate inflation now being felt. But this is just the beginning and we are in a path of serious economic recession together with simultaneous multiple crises in public health, climate impacts and biodiversity collapse. We remind the ADB that this is not just another problem that can be solve by yet another policy change as they have suggestion. This is far more worse and the solutions require confronting the root causes of these multiple crises. We need not just a policy change but a systems change. The Socialist-Greens alternative shows a promising solution but it will require fundamental change starting with the 2022 elections.
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