"Earth Day Celebration"

Reducing the consumption on energy is basically the ultimate way to save the sole living planet in our solar system, environmental experts frequently advised.

Saving energy thus saves Earth’s resources, said Greenpeace, an international environmental group.

From domestic electricity use, to transportation, and big industrial processing plants—for food and non-foods-- these all required and cannot function without the use of energy.

With the overly and successive use of energy due to the ever increasing human demand, we are just literally bleeding the Earth’s resources.

Oil, feedstock, and the new concept of “biofuel”—are these days’ major source of energy. With rapid consumptions of these sources of energy coupled with the increasing exhaustion of carbon dioxide, an environmental imbalance is occurring, thus, result to global warming. Summing up, the result is called: “climate change.”

Melting of ice glaciers in the northern and southern hemispheres, the rising sea level, not to mentioned the “acid rain,” and who can’t forget El Niño and La Niña?—these are all the negative result of climate change.

But these, doesn’t stop, with the human population continues to rise, experts projected that the total number of individual could shoots up to more than seven-billion in the following years, indeed, the need for human energy is also on toll.

Food resources in recent years are also depleting. Rice shortage, coupled with today’s skyrocketing prices of basic commodities is just the adverse result of environmental imbalances, so to speak.

Again, too much consumption of energy results to the imbalance of environment and thus results to climate change.

We, living in the third world country, are very vulnerable when it comes on the direct result of climate change, experts again noted.

“The poor is the most vulnerable if the damaging effects of climate change are left unchecked,” the World Health Organization (WHO) recently said.

WHO representative in the Philippines Soe Nyunt-U said: “climate change will wipe out anti-poverty gains, and continue to widen the rich-poor gap.”

In news article, Health secretary Francisco T. Duque, III, emphasized a study from the National Epidemiology Center, which said of "undeniable relationship" between climate change and human health.

For instance, “dengue cases peaked in 1998 alongside prolonged drought. Higher temperatures shorten the incubation period of dengue larva, consequently increasing the potential for the disease's transmission.”

There have been 6,848 dengue cases reported from January to March 15 alone, compared to 5,859 cases in the same period last year, he said.

In Zamboanga City alone, Mayor Celso L. Lobregat, for the second time, declared on March an outbreak of dengue as at least two persons have already died while more than 500 cases have been registered in the City Health Office in less than three months since the start of the year.

Truly, the effect of environmental degradation is now directly being felt, anywhere and everyone. There is no assurance on who will be safe. Nature is now taking its own actions.

With the recent celebration of our own planet, it is just imperative for us to bring back what the nature gave to us. Since the lesser use of energy is one of the very best tool to save our planet, its time for us to rethink and be sensitive enough on our action. Ooops, don't forget to turn off the lights please….hehehe….