Climate Change in PH Is Imported From The United States! How To Start Green Growth And Stop Grim Deaths?

Are you worried about the Philippines’ foreign debt landscape growing from Billions of US$ to Trillions? You should be! But as an agriculturist, I am more interested in the Philippines’ agricultural landscape growing deadlier than ever even while farmers are growing poorer.

Conscious and Unconscious – we are all aware that we are all food consumers, but only a few realize that the production of our food, in millions of hectares of farms, including greenhouse farms, is the public source of Climate Change.

Yes Sir, yes Ma’am! All of us food consumers have a huge role to play to help change the climate of PH external debts – and surprise, climate change!

Actually, you can see that the Business Climate and the Farming Climate are interlinked with the citizens via the Consumption Climate – if you look deeper into Climate Change – but it is hidden in the business climate of Export-Import.

That is what I’m thinking reading the news report of Cai U Ordinario, “PHL Debt Needs A Decade To Cut; Time To Shift To Green Growth” (23 Mar 2022, BusinessMirror, businessmirror.com.ph). Ms Cai quotes retired professor Teodoro C Mendoza as saying, during a forum of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC):

“We have a comatose economy because we have a huge debt of PhP13 trillion which is equivalent to 68 percent of our GDP. We have a budget deficit of PhP1.7 trillion,” Mendoza said in the vernacular on Wednesday.

Ms Cai also reports:

In order to improve the country’s chances of attaining higher growth, FDC President Rene E Ofreneo cited a need to focus not just on the primary strength of the economy but also on attaining green growth.

We think we have today “Green Growth” but is actually “Grim Growth!” without us realizing it.

Thus, gladly we Filipinos import chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides – sadly, we harvest not only the very visible farm crops (and farm animals) – but the deadliest crop of them all: Climate Change.
(“Food Vs Planet” from bing.com, “Climate Adaptation” from climateadaptationplatform.com)

Now then, if we want to Stop Climate Change, we have to Stop Chemical Agriculture and Start Regenerative Agriculture! When we get rid of all those bags of fertilizers and bottles of pesticides and produce our food by any of natural ways, we will start to see that the climate changes for the better!

To “generate” means to “bring into being; give rise to” (American Heritage Dictionary, thefreedictionary.com). To “regenerate” is to produce again; thus, organic methods “reproduce” the ways by which Mother Nature works – no GHGs that could destroy us all, rich and poor. With regenerative agriculture, still the climate changes, but no more supertyphoons and superhot days and super-landslides and super-floods!

With regenerative farming, we achieve 2 things: (1) solve Farmer Poverty and (2) resolve Climate Change. In agriculture, chemical methods are very expensive; organic methods are pocket-friendly – the farmer wins! And organic methods produce zero greenhouse gases, and therefore zero super-climate changes – the people win! 

How green is our valley!@517