The inhabitants of Pugado, the Philippine Island must take water from their homes by hand, sometimes spend hours chanting every day. Their island is flooded about three times a week.
What is going on?
According to the Agency France-Presse, 2500 people living on the island face their own drowning as much as 4.3-inch per year-a phenomenon known as “land decline”. The drowning is attributed to excessive extraction of groundwater, along with an accelerating sea level rug.
As described by the World Economic Forum, in places with limited surface water-the number of factors such as population growth, drought, extreme heat and contamination of the earth is the main source of fresh water, and “too much water can cause compact and sinking.”
When the land descends, the rising sea worsens the effects, worsen floods and erosion.
Rural captain Jaime Gregorio AFP said: “I think it is impossible to return to normal in our countryside due to climate change.”
In addition to changing students’ schedules to reduce the spread of flood -spreading diseases, the adaptation strategy has covered home cultivation on the pillars.
“I love this island so much. Here’s my mom and dad raised me … But sometimes I think about departure because of the low tide,” street food salesman Maria Tamayo told Pugada.
Why is it related?
After all, the effects of drowning lands and rising seas will not be limited by the Philippines or even the islands and coastal communities.
Intergovernmental Climate Change Commission estimated that global average sea level would increase at least 1 foot above 2000 level to 2100, even if we significantly reduce heat retention pollution. Without pollution, the rise may exceed 6.5 feet.
The world’s dependence on dirty energy sources promotes the emerging global temperature, as the planet wraps a thick blanket when burning heat retention gas caused by burning. As a result, the ice sheets are melting, causing the sea. It also dries fresh water supplies and pollutes what is left of them.
After all, the effect will be felt everywhere, but low and medium -income countries, small communities and separated populations living on vulnerable coastline and islands, such as pugado, are disproportionately and now.
Meanwhile, when the Filipino Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Elenida Basug said AFP: “We have very little contribution to climate change, but we were greatly influenced by its negative effects.”
The department estimates that the district level of the district – already three times faster than the global average – can speed up almost four times.
What is done?
Tamayo urged countries that are most reliable for dirty energy sources, to take responsibility for their impact on its community.
The Philippines still have to determine the national strategy to deal with this growing problem, but in AFP data, some parts of the country have been banned from underground water for almost 20 years.
For some, innovations are keys that could unlock future resistance solutions. For example, one Dutch architect provides that floating buildings will help to survive communities. He hopes that one day they will become an integral part of the big cities.
However, virtually any city in the world can already help solve land downturn and rising seas. Transition to clean energy sources, such as solar and wind in household, local, state and federal level, can cause real differences to reduce damage caused by dirty sources of energy overheating on our planet and flood families.
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