The hypocrisy of Environmental Advocacy Thoughts & Actions in Need

Figure 01, Advocacy in Sustaining a Sustainable Environment (image credit; CDA Aman)

“Thoughts and actions are in need to understand for us to deliver accurately the message we want to emphasize and address in a manner that can be comprehended by anyone. In this article paper, the author will discuss the hypocrisy of environmental advocacy means to us as the author provides and define Three Environmental Ethics relative to the environment we are living with and as a person.”

Insight

The hypocrisy of environmental advocacy is not new to everyone but multiplies on all sectors from nowhere. The argument can be related to the birth of a young tree as illustrated in the image above (credit from CDA Aman) under environmental instinct, whereas no one can identify. The author supposes that they are aware of what’s happening around the globe because of global warming that affects the whole biodiversity we are living with. Thereby, so many individuals, organizations and communities are links with these behaviors because of the consequences of environmental possibilism ideology into urbanism which suffers from the depletion and degradation of ecological resources worldwide.

However, the resulting framework for sustainability and environmental advocacy will help in the formulation of the strategic plan on either mitigation or adaptation. The behavior and attitudes do help our advocacy which was already explained from many sources as to seek an incremental power of people in making them responsive. But, it is the needs of the community for the changes within the principles gathered that needs to be done for a cause in sustaining a sustainable environment for the next generations with environmental thoughts and actions, perhaps, will satisfy the needs of an advocate.

The bandwagon of Hypocrisy in the Life of an Advocate

As we observe and notice, there are many groups are funding for fun run to save the planet, concert for a cause everywhere, rallies everywhere by the so-called environmental advocates and others created in their minds to get the attention of the community for these purposes. But what the author doesn’t understand though, they are the nuisance that pollutes the environment in the sense that gathering peoples in a specific location then afterward you can see all waste materials have been scattered around the place. Is that the one we can say an Environmental Advocate or Environmental Nuisance? Do they help the environment what they are asking for or just funded by the oligarchs to make some noise?

One of the author questions in his mind about the strategies they did, is it sustaining and helping the environment? The answer is, of course, it is NOT. They just doing non-sense at all, but if they are gathering people to clean the canal chambers, cleaning the squatters’ area and cleaning the road in the urban cities instead of having “fun run to save the planet,” that will be better in helping the city, right?

And this would make sense and obviously, you can see the result at the end of the day, right? But, “fun run to save the planet,” the question is if you run 5-kilometers an hour, did you save the planet? Of course, NOT, that only benefit yourself and not the planet, am I correct? Just fooling and idiotic way!

And they are thinking or convincing people to run or walk instead of using vehicles, that’s another story, and that will be happening through the government policymaking for amendment, and the repercussions are to discard the vehicles in the urban city than using a bicycle and walking. But the question, is it favorable to the business sectors that are in greed for the wealth? The author thinks it’s not and doesn’t help at all and they are all nuisances that pollute the community likewise with the “concert for a cause.”

Everybody understands the basic principle of sustainability. But the question, are those business sectors understood these situations or just hypocrisy? Or just to show in the landscape market they are?

With the question in the author's mind, are those government policymakers, and government officials or even the ordinary people are following the rule of law? Obviously, they are NOT but doing stupidity!

Are they practicing for the common good? Or only to fatten their pockets with the graft and corruption practices? Yes, like what happens to Ayala and Pangilinan has molested the Filipino people since 1997 and up to now for their own sake! The good thing is, we have President Duterte who loves the Filipino as well as protecting the environment for the next generation, and that can’t be denied.

Environmental Principles towards Advocacy

In the author's principles and view towards sustainability, this can’t be measured but the author can help somehow, engineering-wise and as an environmentalist in sustaining a sustainable environment we are dreaming of. And by conserving to a sustainable environment as the author understands, these will not be ensuring our surroundings a richer and more diverse. But securing the resources in pursuing to provide improvements in the quality of human life and with biodiversity conservation will have a guarantee of protecting and enhancing the agricultural sector for our food security, health and leisure pursuits. And this can be defined from our hearts and will on how we can help no matter what!

The challenge we are now facing in these phenomena are the whole range with the extraordinarily rich and diverse ecological inheritance of the tropical regions like the Philippines, which is now in jeopardy because of graft and corruption practices within the national government and the local government units (LGUs) and at the same time with their compatriot oligarchs in continuing molesting the Filipinos.

However, the implementation is a very challenging of the problems we always encounter in our daily lives which becomes problematic not only for the individual but for the community at large.

As an example of the human activities and the human pressure on the natural environment has gradually increased, thereby, the biodiversity has kept on declining because of human demands. So, the problem is how we can resolve and manage the threats we are facing in the biodiversity. And so far, the world today is facing habitat reduction, habitat fragmentation, over-harvesting, exotic species, and pollution are the causes of an unsustainable environment as the author will explain below.

So, what will happen to us now? If these will continues, what might happen in the next generation? The questions in the author’s mind, again, are we sustaining sustainable development in securing our children for the next generation and are we safe in that regard? Of course, it is a big NO! Agree?

Over-Harvesting

With the image as you can see in the figure below (Figure 02) whereas a landslide has happened in the country is an example of overharvesting in the upland resources. And when the heavy rains or typhoon comes, what will happen next? Did the government politicians and the oligarchs understand those?

There will be a tendency of denudation effect that will harm the people, but always occur and affect the lowland areas that usually suffer the community at large. However, the upper portion of the mountains in the above picture can be humanly resolved if ever the landslide comes through, notwithstanding, the ecosystem biodiversity is NOT, and this will take time to reinstate the same as it was.

We have no choice, but the group of people living in the upland area can do some logging practices for their needs and anytime they want to that cannot be controlled but denial.

However, it should be on steep slopes of the mountain that may economically benefit the people residing there in the short term, but maintaining a well-functioning watershed on these slope of the hill may provide a more significant economic benefit in the long run. And thus, it will preserve and prevent the landslide in avoiding fatal incidents in the area.

Figure 02, Landslide Landscape View of Over-Harvesting (image credit: Flickr, anonymous)

Moreover, in the course of the Rio Summit, engineering-wise became a source and platform that provide an obvious blueprint for sustainable development especially on setting the codes and standard of practices in fulfilling the needs of a sustainable building-built environment, and likewise to other concerned too. Moreover, according to them will depend on the real world whereas every state or country of jurisdiction has its ideas on the implementation of those agreements that will make it possible and incorporating in the policymaking to consider sustaining a sustainable development that is aiming for.

Ecological Ethics Somehow in the Future to Understand

In the modern world of ecological aspect, environmental ethics are one of the initiatives and essential for individuals as we are part of the environment whereas we are dealing with it. The author stands to agree that being one of those beneficiaries given by the Almighty God on Earth, let us do the things that will not harm and spoil our environment, but in return put our love and care unto it as part of our advocacy. Moreover, we are already in the technological age whereas everything we need is already available around the cloud at the stance, and we don’t need to go further and beyond to get them through. However, please do some precaution because of the environment within the information age is too dangerous if we don’t secure a reliable source and the rights we need for respect for us to live peacefully.

In today’s generation and globalization, the most important as a responsible person that we are aware of the so-called indiscrimination and destructive human activities because of urbanization. The inculcation with moral values towards nature and the information we gathered must learn the implications with respect from several sources of life and forms within the context of the environment. It is about our behavioral attitudes concerning issues as a responsible person towards natural landscape like what happening in the upland and lowland resources, the species, and the nonhuman organisms within the ecosystem which have to secure for a sustainable environment in the next generation to come, right?

With the conducted studies and observations, the author may say that environmental ethics are mostly related to our behavior and attitudes towards our environment in the context we live in as an actor. However, according to the dictionary and the author quoted as, environmental ethics helps define a man's moral and ethical obligations toward the environment. But with human values become a factor when looking at environmental ethics, where human values are the things and valuable to individuals that they can use to evaluate actions or events. In this regards, the author provides and define Three Environmental Ethics with respect to environmental studies that must be learned and adhered in protecting the environment into practice in sustaining a sustainable environment as such; 1) Knowing Things and yet They Don’t Know, 2) Lineage Characteristics to the Environment, and 3) Natures Habituated to Protect.

Knowing Things and yet They Don’t Know

In the world of hypocrisy, we can count in this world of many geniuses. The point here is to secure what you are fighting for and be true to it. On the other hand, on every occasion where they know those things, and yet, they don’t know how to protect the environment and reinstate what they have done. But as an environmental advocate, be straightforward on how to care and protect the environment from the hands of human activities in a sustainable way of life. We all know that industrialization and urbanization in the modern world have created valuable pollutions and traffics, however, protection and treatment processes in securing people’s health are the priority. Therefore, knowing things are sacred things of wisdom we earned, and this must be valued diligently without excuses that you don’t know. In the world of hypocrisy, the best example that can give in this technical age is alleged FVP Leni Robredo of the Philippines, do they? And a lot more, even in your officemates, that can be said, hypocrites!

Lineage Characteristics to the Environment

Whatever we learned in the family, these reflect who we are in the context of the environment. It is because of the behaviors and attitudes we inherited from them. Moreover, it is individual responsibility being a role model with the highest moral, conduct and respect by principles. Providing unselfish knowledge who can be able to share concerning decisions in planning activities and environmental management in shaping sustainable development. In the Philippines, only two Presidents are nation builder and has a political will in protecting the lives of the Filipinos, environment, and the country at large and no other than our beloved President Ferdinand Marcos and President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

Natures Habituated to Protect

As human beings, let us not spoils what God gave to us but rather giving them protection and valuing as we love ourselves and the family. This is what we have and to practice them diligently in the aspect of environmental science for us to be knowledgeable what nature relates to us — the environmental safety, health, and technology which must be adhered towards human activities in which we need to attain in sustaining a valuable nature in the prevention of climate change. And thus, we need to protect and secure our environment for your children for the next generation. Let us give our hand and contribute our effort in reinstating the ecosystem into a sustainable environment.

Thoughts & Action on Environmental Change

It is specific to environmental change, including climate variability, which has multiple influences on human health. Direct impacts resulting include the effects of rising temperatures and more intense heatwaves and floods within the affected areas.

The goal within the Environmental Change Related Problems in the Advocacy

The goal is to implement a range of strategies, policies, and measures. The decrease of health vulnerability to the current climate variability and future climate change' in a variety of areas with different health risks is to design and implement the practical measures to protect health under a rapidly changing climate as an advocate.

Approaches

The focus on selecting and prioritizing long-term, cost-effective adaptation strategies, secondly implementing these adaptations in the field, and finally synthesizing and sharing the lessons learned to bring about measurable changes in adaptive capacity including the followings as such: 1) Reduction in the burden of environmental change; 2) Modification on the effect of environmental change; 3) Integration of planning and implementation; 4) Identification and application of short-term incentives for behavioral change to reduce long-term vulnerability to health impacts.

Advocacy Involvement

It is difficult but a wide range of experience in protecting health within the environmental change and related problems that can be carried out by an individual or an inter-sectoral group being a motivated actor for the community.

Futuristic Aspect of Advocacy

Adaptation principles to environmental change, and notably health adaptation and mitigating climate change, is at an early stage of development and an explicitly designed to pilot adaptation in a limited number of covered areas, which are subject to the broadest possible range of health vulnerabilities to climate change, and thereby initially have both commitment and capacity to respond to the soonest.

Conclusion

With all the observations learned, researches and composition by providing critical thinking in the preparation of this article paper is amazing, and a graduate student is a good chance to know things that are irrelevant in my professional practice. However, as an Environmentalist and an Environmental Advocate, I appreciate the efforts they have contributed to protecting Mother Earth as their advocacy.

In resolving environmental issues which becomes massive nowadays, however, incorporating government law into practice in serving the country’s security will benefit the entire country. Hence, it must be addressed with a dedication that has the political will and advocacy in implementing the rule of law in sustaining a sustainable environment for the next generations will be from our thought and action which is a point of understanding towards hypocrisy that needs to be avoided but honesty and political will.

Moreover, it is the author intended to protect our environment with environmental ethics that must be understood as well as in professional working practice in securing a sustainable environment but for the future generation.

Write-Up References can be Read from this Links;

Gomeseria, RV; (December 2018); “Environmental Advocacy & Conservation Personal Journal & Reflections;” Durreesamin Journal (ISSN: 2204-9827) December Vol 4 Issue 3; the Year 2018

Gomeseria, RV; (January 2019); “Hypocrisy of Environmental Advocacy Thought and Actions in Need;” Retrieved from; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330601536_Hypocrisy_of_Environmental_Advocacy_Thought_and_Actions_in_Need