Climate change had all Filipinos at its feet last month. There’s nothing else for it, typhoons with voluminous rains smashing the archipelago in record time.
When the planet was healthier, super typhoons were more predictable.
September's catastrophe hammers home a point scientists have been babbling about since time immemorial; climate change is more than melting glaciers and drowning cities. Climate change means coral reefs bleaching, which in turn means a food web in disarray. It means the wipeout of a huge chunk of the world’s flora and fauna, not to mention a certain species called Homo sapien. Death. Destruction. Corrosion...
Climate change does not reckon with any creature, even if it has starred in a box-office movie, nor does it care if it has been decked out in the latest bling.
As a case in point:
An unwitting poster girl for a planet in peril.
Climate change really is a lethal equalizer. If the SNN newscasts were to let on, showbiz personalities were not impervious to the Ondoy disaster, notwithstanding their towers of ivory and three-storey mansions. Everyone from Sylvia Sanchez to Gladys Reyes had a story and lived to tell it.
On a brighter note, some rose higher than the floodwaters, way above the average moral high ground. Look at these two:
What they did was really dangerous. And the best thing about it was that they never vaunted their actions to the press, unlike one other well-known actor.
Like I said, an equalizer.
When the planet was healthier, super typhoons were more predictable.
September's catastrophe hammers home a point scientists have been babbling about since time immemorial; climate change is more than melting glaciers and drowning cities. Climate change means coral reefs bleaching, which in turn means a food web in disarray. It means the wipeout of a huge chunk of the world’s flora and fauna, not to mention a certain species called Homo sapien. Death. Destruction. Corrosion...
Climate change does not reckon with any creature, even if it has starred in a box-office movie, nor does it care if it has been decked out in the latest bling.
As a case in point:
Christine Reyes, highly esteemed star of telenovelas and films, at the mercy of the elements.
An unwitting poster girl for a planet in peril.
Climate change really is a lethal equalizer. If the SNN newscasts were to let on, showbiz personalities were not impervious to the Ondoy disaster, notwithstanding their towers of ivory and three-storey mansions. Everyone from Sylvia Sanchez to Gladys Reyes had a story and lived to tell it.
On a brighter note, some rose higher than the floodwaters, way above the average moral high ground. Look at these two:
What they did was really dangerous. And the best thing about it was that they never vaunted their actions to the press, unlike one other well-known actor.
Like I said, an equalizer.
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