Payback Time?

Hello earthlings! How does Mother Earth treating you at this present time? Or, should we ask ourselves how are we treating her? Natural calamities have gone sadly overwhelming nowadays. The past weeks weren't an exception for us here in the southern part of the Philippines. 

The rain has been so tormenting for a lot of residences and families, even to the crops as well. Some of our neighbors who lived in a nearby stream experienced flooding waist high for two consecutive nights. Cleaning the entire mess took them days because the flood water also contains mud and this requires vigorous brushing and cleaning, while others were all busy washing clothes, and sofa covers soaked with mud as well. It's unfortunate, but we can only thank God that no one got harmed and their dwelling places were still intact.

The community spirit of "bayanihan" or unity and cooperation among the people in the community is still persistent. My brother and some of his friends even helped in cleaning a couple of houses affected by the flood. This is truly something very inspiring to witness at this present time, however, how are we towards the environment and to Mother Nature?

The effects of global warming are just overwhelming nowadays. These calamities aren’t something that we can brush aside because it affects our lives, our home, and our planet. I sincerely don’t know how people in the government and the international level addressed the issues of global warming, but I think it has become a personal issue for a lot of us, so we have to take a stand and do something. 

The very simple means of garbage disposal are nothing extraordinary to accomplish. I think it is very important for people to have a sense of self discipline in making a lifestyle to dispose of our trash properly. Every household should commit to segregating biodegradable and non- biodegradable materials. Moreover, we have to be responsible not to throw garbage everywhere, and if possible less air pollution too, something just so hard to control with the prevailing use of vehicles, factories and all.

Is this payback time? Perhaps. 

The constant rain, before we only got used to the monsoon rains, nowadays we still have the very wet season during summer. My perusal about the dreadful raining took me to Australia, they too have incessant flooding everywhere due to non-stop and occasional heavy rains. Moreover, still in Australia, who can forget the hellish wildfires that affect the communities, the families and even the wildlife. These too can be because of global warming.

A couple of days ago, we had heavy rains here again. And, this waterfall in the photo above just went berserk, you can check what happened from this link here. I hope you can check it out to see the difference, the volume of flood water has been just extraordinary, the water went up creating more massive pathways that unfortunately swallowed two kids living nearby. The old people living in the area had said that this has been the first time ever. Personally, I can’t imagine a beautiful waterfall would be that deadly in the storm. This is just so sad.

Climate change has been on a global scale, @itravelRox even shared from my previous post about the winter weather during the supposed to be spring time in some other countries. Sigh.

My aunt who owns a small beach resort in the province also noticed an increase in the sea water level. A few weeks back, the sea almost broke one of the cottage when the water rises during high tide. This too is something truly alarming for people living along the coastline.

Anyway, how can we make amends to Mother Nature and to our environment? I hope we are never too late.

God bless our lands, earthlings!

Lead Image and Gif by me.

Second photo by me. First posted on Flickr.

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04/10/2022

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