G-SPAT

Earth Day everyday
Grace Bandoy

The world celebrated Earth Day last month, a once-a-year special event to commemorate the importance of preserving mother earth and all its glory. I think it’s too bad that we only get to think of doing that once in every year. Shouldn’t we all be thinking of protecting our natural environment everyday? We should, especially now that modernization is rapidly taking over our natural lands, air and waters.

How can we not think of protecting the very core of our very own existence? We cannot live without clean water, clean air and without land from which all the other living beings on earth stand on. Nothing on earth can live without these three and yet majority of us totally disregard the importance of them. We are so engrossed with our own selfish material lives that we forget the things that are most important – cliché – but it’s true.

Earth Day should be everyday. And let us not depend on concerned authorities to do the saving of Mother Earth. Let’s celebrate Earth Day each and single day in the smallest ways we can.
Segregate your garbage, if possible do not use a lot of plastics and Styrofoam materials, plant trees and vegetation in your homes, conserve water, teach your kids to love mother nature so they can grow up to be our future environmentalists and allow them to bask outdoors so they can appreciate our natural wonders more, and well, you can try and support the people who are protectors of our environment.

There are things we can do, a lot actually. Let’s recognize that having a clean environment will keep us living for a longer time and it will do good for the generations to come too.
Especially in Baguio where our natural environment is fast disappearing, let us not let them disappear totally. Let’s do something now before it’s too late for our city and for us.
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The result of this election is crucial for the re- making or further breaking of Baguio . It is make or break. It’s no secret, I mean it’s here for all of us to see, that Baguio is changing for the worse and definitely not for the better.

If you think that overpopulation, more crimes, gross air pollution, more malls is for the better, then you must be some shitty person and you don’t give shit about Baguio and you don’t love this city at all.

Right now, Baguio is all about preservation and not further development. Just what the hell will it take for us to realize that?! Please wake up Baguio people and save the city now!