Mother Nature Alert

I'm not an expert but when I saw that Super Typhoon Yolanda in the news, I knew there was something really wrong with Mother Nature.  You see, instead of protecting us humans, what she is busy doing lately is to react to the problems thrown to her and she just can't control or delay her reactions.  She has to face those problems - smog, all other types of pollution, garbage everywhere, cutting down trees or the kaingin system overpopulation, all other issues that bring about the climate change on earth - global warming, green house gas, sea level rise, fossil fuels, and more! It's too much for Mother Nature! She has got a handful of serious issues in her face.

Mother Nature, our Earth, our home is wounded!  We have been informed before maybe during science classes in grade school or through TV and internet that the Earth is alive.  What she also does is to heal herself and one effect of that is evolution.   Again, I'm not an expert but I think our nature adapts also to the activities that its inhabitants are doing and are affecting it.

Super Typhoon Yolanda.  Many say we now have frequent monster storms because of the warmer waters of our seas.  Storms form in the seas, they say.  The warmer the ocean, the greater the storms! Why are the oceans warm? Same reasons for global warming.  If we google it, we can read details about there but to summarize, those causes come from irresponsible and harmful human activities that means us, people.

This is just too much. What happened in Eastern Visayas region among others will be just one of the many if we continue to hurt our one planet.  So far, as far as I'm concerned, there are no other habitable planets nearby where humans can escape to in cases of great calamities here on Earth.

Naderev Sano, our own delegate for climate change talks pleaded to the UN delegation for action for the immediate program in correcting mankind's activities so harmful to nature.  He is even on hunger strike for this.  It's not my thing to fast but I strongly support him. I am hopeful that people will take action on this.  http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/12/world/europe/poland-philippines-sano-cop/

In helping Mother Nature, we can start by planting trees or food crops in our backyard or even in the paso (small containers of soil to put plants in).  Not only are we helping the environment but also we can save money from buying vegetables from the market.  We can further save from using plastic bags since we won't be buying from the market anymore.  Isn't that great?

Using recyclable materials.  Strictly no plastic, my lambs! We have been informed about this.  Even grade schoolers are being educated on this for as long as I've lived.

Being very thrifty of our trash. Yep, it's not only money we should be watching very closely.  Less trash, less pollutio, happier Mother Earth. 

Less use of products in plastic containers. I don't know but I still like shampoos.  But I remember using coconut milk for my hair when I was younger.   My grandmother used to bathed me with those. And so that I would smell really nice or she thought so (hehe), she would put herbs in my tubig panligo. She even put sampaguita flowers in my pillows.  There were no perfumed fabric softeners or plain fabric softeners back then.

Then we should pray of course, that the Lord may continue to urge us to save Mother Earth.

These are just a few simple and pretty doable things that we can do to help ease our Mother Nature's burden.  Let's all help her so she can protect us once again...Good luck to us.