Is the Philippines Ready for Climate Change

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Is the Philippines Readyfor Climate Change?

• Ben S. Malayang III

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My Answer

• No
• For three reasons

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Why Were Not Ready

• Were not presently building up the needed
  resources to meet the costs to adequately address
  the risks associated with climate change
• The costs would seem too high for our present
  capabilities as a nation
• There appears to be no build up of political will
  to address the risks

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Risks Linked to Climate Change

• Sea level rise (SLR)
• Salt Water Intrusion (SWI)
• Acidification of Oceans
• Altered patterns ( regularity) of rainfall
  drought events (e.g., ENSO patterns)
• Loss of biodiversity
• Altered political social movements
  human-environment dynamics

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CC Events, Risks, Adaptation
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Complicating Factors

• The momentum of climate change is likely to
  linger for over 1-2 hundred years (if not more)
  e.g., the albedo effect on oceans
• Most politicians leaders (especially local ones
  who need to lead adaptation efforts) seem not
  really understanding (nor caring) about the
  seriousness of whats before us
• Our society today seems not willing to address
  two exogenous drivers of climate change high
  rapid population growth, and the need to do away
  with the most serious ( widespread) contributor
  to climate change large-scale C-based
  manufacturing lifestyles (e.g., widespread
  expanding use of jet engines)

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Again, the Question

• Are we in the Philippines -- and in Dumaguete
  -- ready for climate change?

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Sadly, NO.