There is a tenet in science which says that for each action there is a corresponding reaction, this is better known as the law of cause and effect.
An inflated ball when dropped to the ground will either create a sound, bounce or roll. The assumption is also true with the way humans act in relation to the natural environment.
Global warming has become a priority concern for all nations in the world. The increasing damage in the ozone layer is caused by too much carbon emission relative as to how people indiscriminately handle wastes every day. The domino effect of each action which corresponds in acquiring human needs illicit reactions within and without of the environment. Ironically, we have gone that far in completely neglecting our role as steward in the conservation of man’s natural habitat.
Whatever we are experiencing in the changes brought about by climate change is a resonance that something about the balance of nature is getting beyond normal. In the light of real and actual life experiences, human race has to realize that nature is voicing out something which has to be rectified with the immediate time frame.
The deep rising, droughts, ice formations, sink holes, trembles, turbulent winds, storms and typhoons are not only visible signs for us to witness. We have to understand that these signs are crystal clear messages for us to focus on the abuses which man has implicated on nature and how we either knowingly or unknowingly collectively treat the natural environment instead of conserving and preserving it.
Needless to say, we have to be at peace with the soil that freely gives the food we eat. The air which gives us the abundance of the life we breathe; the marine life which filters our wastes that gives way to natural recycling of wastes.
Mankind is within the fateful time of a great challenge and has a need to be more discerning of its action before expecting a pleasant reaction from nature which provides us with our basic needs. Formidable as it is, we have to prioritize the caring ways which the environment deserves before nature makes her next unexpected move.
By: ROSITA P. NAVARRO | Teacher III | Bataan National High School | Balanga, Bataan
