The Environmental Catastrophe

            During the time of our parents and grandparent , it was easier to know when the summer and rainy seasons, or when the cool and hot seasons started and ended in the Philippines. But today in our generation it is difficult to identify when or where the summer or the rainy seasons would be. This could be one of the attributes to a worldwide phenomenon called Global Warming.

             Global Warming is the increase of the earth's temperature due to build up of gases in the atmosphere. This warming has become unpredictable and severe. With global warming comes more floods, droughts, storms, and extreme temperatures, where never sure what the climate is the next month or even the next week brings. In the country, global warming means that even if its summer, rains and sometimes typhoon occur, there will be shorter cool months, and the rainy/hot seasons will be longer or even shorter. Global warming and changing weather patterns will be stressful to people, animals, plants, and the environment. Climate change is also connected to the above topic, it is the alteration in our weather patterns caused by global warming.

             It's true that we are really experiencing an ecological catastrophe, we may prevent or even lessen its effect if we will just unite as one. I know it's not that easy to be united but in our own simple ways we can help in lessening the effect of this ecological catastrophe. We can reduce using plastics, its better if we can avoid using plastic bags, we must follow the 3r, or the REDUSE, REUSE AND RECYCLE. We can also kept even small candy wrappers we see, and even some crumbled  papers on the streets. By reducing the usage of plastics and  Styrofoam we can help a lot. We can help in each simple ways.    

Noreen S. Ortiz
III-Oxygen

Informal theme no. 6