Plant A Tree To Fight Climate Change?

 

It's another record-breaking heat last year and even this year. Scientists confirmed that year 2023 was the warmest year since global records began in 1850. The ten warmest years in the 174-year record have all occurred during the last decade (2014–2023). Don't expect 2024 to be any different. 🥹

Many Asians including Filipinos complain of the unbearable heat this summer. Climate crisis is the new norm and so what do we expect? Everyone is reminded to plant a tree instead. 😊

Sadly, trees don't grow fully overnight. Not even a year or two. What we are experiencing at the moment is the cumulative effect of climate crisis, and the solutions are always long term just as the problem that started it all was also long term.

Of course, planting trees will help in the long term. The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

But let's be realistic. We will suffer for the next five to ten years, that's for sure. There's nothing we can do about it. The damage has been done. Man now reaps what he sowed.

Planting trees is just one solution. Cutting down on carbon emissions is even more important. The key to solving our climate crisis is not even in the hands of the Filipinos. It is in the hands of the major polluting nations of the world.

The irony is countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh even the small island nation of Vanuatu in the Pacific will suffer the most for what the major polluters did. The Filipinos can only add their voices in demanding accountability from these polluters. Unfortunately, we all live in the same planet. No man is an island. 🥲