Climate Change and the Resiliency of Filipinos
Reference:https://www.shutterstock.com/search/group-filipino-people Climate Change and the Resiliency of Filipinos It is undeniable that climate change is one of the biggest threats the contemporary world is facing today and it even more so in the Philippines. The average temperature is rising, the number of typhoons in a year has increased, the rain fall is erratic and tides are going higher than before. As a result, there has been a lot of destruction. Environmental shifts such as these have, in many cases, affected agriculture, infrastructure and sources of income along with water bodies in the rural and coastal areas of the Philippines. Owning to its archipelagic geography, natural calamities are frequent in the Philippines and with the phenomenon of climate change billions get added into the already existing damage. This leads to disorganized settlements and therefore no proper measures against forest cover leading poor drainage disasters, aeolian storms occurring where trees...