With
the effort of providing space for the youth to discuss and reflect on the
current condition of the ecology and the crisis it is facing, on April 19 and
20, the Liga ng Makabagong Kabataan (LMK) organized a mountain climb in Mt.
Agad-agad in Iligan City. The climb was called Panata sa Kalikasan 2014 and it
was participated by 30 youth participants coming from LMK- MSU and Iligan
Chapters, Lawig and Kilusang Kabataan (KK).
The
Panata sa Kalikasan aimed to bring the youth closer to the nature thereby
enhancing their appreciation of its importance to human life. The highlights of
the climb were group discussion and team building activities such as games and
music jam. The theme of which revolved around ecosystem.
During
the reflection process, most of the participants have common observation on the
current state of the ecology. Mostly observed that pollution is taking its
toll; that natural calamities become frequent that bring unprecedented damages
to life and property; that mining is the cause of forest and environmental denudation
in many regions; that human insatiable greed for profit further the destruction
of the last bastion of resources on earth; and that, privatization of common resources
denies common people of livelihood and life.
As
a new framework for economic and political discourse in managing resources and
responding to the needs of human being without jeopardizing the ecology, eco-socialism
was introduced. The framework puts emphasis on the reduction of carbon emission
in the atmosphere, which is the main agent in global warming, through sustainable
practices such as community-based management of resources and by dismantling corporate
control over the natural resources.
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