How Baby Boomers and their Children Can “Save” the World by Protecting Ecosystems in their Original Hometowns |
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Written by Bobby M. Reyes | |||
Sunday, 26 June 2011 12:05 | |||
Overseas Sorsoganons can be the “’Last Generation’ that has enough time (and resources) to deal with (ecosystem) problems” By Lolo Bobby M. Reyes of Part IX of a Series on “Saving Our Sorsogon (
We now face losing marine species and entire marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, within a single generation. And we are also probably the last generation that has enough time to deal with the problems. – Daniel Laffoley, head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas M other Earth is in “deep sh_t,” to use a colloquial American-English idiom. To read more details about the report of the IUCN, please click on this hyperlink: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110620/sc_afp/environmentclimatewarmingoceansextinction_20110620160302 This writer has been writing for almost three decades now about the need to protect the environment by rescuing endangered species like the “layagan” monitor lizard of Sorsogon. Lately, he has come up with a “Saving Our Sorsogon ( Answers have been provided on how to develop and/or redevelop private-and-public lands in The World May Suffer Ecological Catastrophe in Less-than a Century
Experts have a stark warning: that unless we change course, the ‘perfect storm’ of population growth, To read the ABC News report on “Earth 2100,” please click this link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Earth2100/story?id=7697237&page=1 In line with the predictions reported in “Earth 2100,” I wrote this highly-optimistic forecast about Celebrating Christmas in the Philippines in 2112 (Year 12 of the 22nd Century) But the bright future that this writer has predicted can and would only happen if the present crop of public officials and private-industry leaders would help themselves and their people in protecting Mother Earth by first changing for the better the environment of their respective communities. The Overseas Sorsoganons – being familiar with the various ecological movements in their respective countries of new domicile – can become the catalysts of a new push to protect Planet Earth. “ T his writer has been way ahead of even American scientists in writing about the flora and fauna of Now, as if on cue, here are excerpts from a report published this month of June 2011: QUOTE. Scientists exploring the A six-week expedition by scientists from the California Academy of Sciences and various Philippine scientific institutions found the previously unknown species "during nearly every dive and hike as we surveyed reefs, rain forests and the ocean floor," said expedition leader Terry Gosliner, an invertebrate zoologist and dean of science at the academy. The expedition's scientists on It will take months and even years before all the plants and animals the scientists collected can be identified, described scientifically, and classified as new or old species. UNQUOTE.
Here’s another URL about the same article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F06%2F25%2FMNP21K2CL1.DTL In the final analysis, it makes sense to “Save Our Sorsogon ( E ditor’s Note: Here are links to the previous articles in this series: The “Save Our Sorsogon (SOS) Bay” Initiative (Part I) URL: http://www.mabuhayradio.com/ecology-and-the-environment/the-save-our-sorsogon-sos-bay-initiative Sorsogon Bay: “So Near, Yet So FBAR.” The “Red Tide” Ban by the BFAR Must Be Lifted (Part II) “Back to BacMan,” Tracing to the Geothermal Plant an Apparent Cause of Pollution in Sorsogon Bay (Part Sorsoganons Got Guts and Know How to Face Death Honorably (Part V) More On the “Save Our Sorsogon (SOS) Bay” Advocacy: “Arin si Brockovich?” (Part VI) Sorsogon Public Officials Don’t Know How to Google for Geothermal Energy’s Environmental Issues (Part (To be continued . . .)
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