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Earth: The Only Planet which contains …. 4.5 Billion years Composed of the delicate mixtures of the basic elements of Life. Air, Water and Soil

Industrial Rev barely 200 years ago Significance of IR: Started to use sources of life faster than rate of replenishment)

Environment-Not about birds and bees, LIFE and Sources of Life Land, Air and Water (LAW) Vital Organs of LIFE - Trees and forests- Lungs Land & soil - skin and flesh Sea and waterways – blood and bloodstreams 70% of the human body and of the Earth is water

Applying the Mindset of Extraction and Consumption

BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS Air Pollution and Global Heating Development! Revenue; Profit; Progress, Development? DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY PRODUCED AND USED AND VOLUME OF WASTE GENERATED?

Mining: DISEMBOWELED THE EARTH, SCRAPE AWAY LIFE GIVING SOIL AND THROW AWAY WATER >Revenue? PARADOX OF DIAMOND AND WATER > Or Depletion of the natural capital?

“ Industrialized” Developed economy?” CONSUMPTION??? Economics Highly-consuming Economics efficient use of scarce resources. “ Development based on Extraction and ‘Consumption’ 5% of people- 30% of resources)

Need 5 earths to satisfy the consumption patterns Is Waste Economical? “ Developed Economy” -- contradiction of terms?

“ Developed and developing” countries? Over Consuming Countries (OCCs), a.k.a., Obsessive-Compulsive Countries) Obsessive-Compulsive – in Psychology, a mental disorder a symptom of which is excessive hoarding of material things. Low Consuming Countries Change words, change meaning, change implications, and then change mindset

Mt. Makiling 4,000 ha. USA: 1 B ha

BASED ON A PER UNIT OF AREA, OUR LAND IS THE RICHEST ON EARTH ( in endemicity)

70% Paradigm of extraction and consumption

6 volumes, 4218 pp > 100 experts contributing Seaweeds, corals, bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, crustaceans, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes, sea turtles, sea snakes , estuarine crocodile, and marine mammals

The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH” – Dr. Kent Carpenter/ UN FAO Study

0.2% INTACT Over-fishing Destructive Forms of Fishing

16 Rivers are dead Violations of Laws!

In the Laws of Nature, There is no right nor wrong, There are no rewards nor punishments; There are only consequences.

Global Warming and Climate Change Accumulated consequences of our excessive extraction and consumption behavior What can we do? Crisis : Gravest threat to Mankind Greatest Opportunity

Philippines contributes ¼ of 1% of the global GHG (HTG) but is the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.

Climate change could have a devastating impact on the Philippines, leading to widespread destruction of the country's flora and fauna and flooding the capital Manila, a NASA scientist warned here Friday. The continued melting of Arctic ice caps, brought on by climate change, could cause sea levels to rise by seven metres (23 feet), said National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) physicist Josefino Comiso. He said the country's fish stocks would be depleted and many species of plant and animal life would die because of the change in ocean temperatures caused by climate change.

PANAY NEWS, 7 Feb 2009; By Jun Ariolo N. Aguirre BORACAY – An assessment made by marine experts said the powdery white sand beach of this island will be submerged in sea water several years from now because of the Sea Level Rise (SLR) and other key factors. Global warming experts from the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and from the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute recently presented this finding to stakeholders here. “ These observations have been corroborated by the island's 15 to 20-year residents and news reports,” she added.

JUST LIKE OTHER MAJOR ASIAN CITIES: Manila, coastal villages under threat from sea-level rise ( By TJ Burgonio); Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer, 23 Sep 08 MANILA, Philippines—Coastal communities in the Philippines are under threat from sea level rise, while a mega, but low-lying city like Manila is vulnerable to more disasters, according to a World Vision report.

Infrastructure & Transport Can you afford economic dislocation? For how long?

Story - The first shoe, Crisis, Conservation of Life-sources, Mind-shift from wasteful use to use that is wise and sustainable Rising to the claim and challenge of Humans being the wisest animal on Earth Law? Perhaps law, as a thinking profession, can make a little contribution to humanity’s role as the thinking part of Nature

We cannot solve problems using the same mindset that created them in the first place Jump out of the Box-turn it upside down and shake it Shifting Mindset from THE ECONOMICS OF Consumption to ECONOMICS OF Conservation, Protection and Restoration (CPR) (david Brower)

NATURAL CAPITALISM, GREEN / ECO-ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS --DO NOT USE CAPITAL, ONLY INTEREST - PROPER ACCOUNTING!

Healing the Lungs of the Earth

Banaue rice terraces: < 2000 years old Restore wealth of the Earth’s Flesh -- the soils- source of or food! Agricultural lands- Contour-SALT

CPR ECONOMICS restorative Economics

Shifting mindsets Man is more than matter Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs) … (Happiness indicators – social relations, work, and leisure intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and Nature

SAGAY MARINE RESERVE (32,000 Ha) Anilao, Batangas Apo Island (Neg Or.) Puerto Princesa City (Palawan)-eco-tourism and agriculture, health, sports, housing Nueva Vizcaya (restored forests-water flow) Many More Costa Rica Cuba (health, sports, education) Bhutan (Gross National Happiness)

Traffic jam Travel on single file Do not take up more space and materials than necessary Do not pollute the air that they breathe while traveling to and from their places of work (source of food) When they bump into each other, they do not argue, fight and sometimes kill; no road rage Instead, they bow at each other

WASTE: SPACE, Square meters METALS, RUBBER, PLASTIC, COST: CAR-FUEL-viz rice INSURANCE, MAINTENANCE ACCIDENTS: DEATHS, INJURY, DAMAGE AIR POLLUTION Our insistence at individual mobility has resulted in serious collective immobility

INERTIA OF COLLECTIVE INSANITY THINKING OUT OF THE BOX JUMP OUT-TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN- SHAKE IT PROGRESS IN HUMAN THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION

CAR-OUSEL? PEDAL? Use excess manpower

Discount Sense of fun Sense of community and human interaction Sometimes words have to be a little wild…,

Those of have less in wheels must have more in roads…. Is a city made for … cars or for people?

Filipino Design Prototype of a CAROUSEL: Example is the best teacher

Prototype of Man-Powered Mini-Train PINOY Karusel -- U Tube RAIL

Before the power of the combustion engine -- ___ ? Before __ Power? was ____ power “ Sometimes words have to be a little wild… because they are the assault of thoughts upon the unthinking.”

Puerto Princesa-April 1 Marikina 60 kms of bike lanes

SAGAY MARINE RESERVE (32,000 Ha) Anilao, Batangas Apo Island (Neg Or.) Puerto Princesa City (Palawan)-eco-tourism and agriculture, health, sports, housing Nueva Vizcaya (restored forests-water flow) Many More Costa Rica Cuba (health, sports, education) Bhutan (Gross National Happiness) Curitiba, Brazil Bogota, Colombia Borneo-rainfall, water, biological diversity

Education Engineering Enforcement

Focus on a bio-geographic unit CENTRAL PHILIPPINE ISLANDS VISAYAN MARINE TRIANGLE/ WWF-thank you

Education: Informal education: In 2002: Bantayan Island SEA Camp Mission: To Teach by Example and Experience

SCHOOL OF THE SEAs S ea and E arth A dvocates Teach by Example and Experience: SHOWCASE Beauty and Bounty of the Philippine Islands, and Filipino ingenuity and artistry

TOTALLY powered by RENEWABLE ENERGY (SOLAR AND WINDMILL, L.E.D. LIGHTS: 0.5 – 1.0 WATT Renewable energy and Energy Conservation Panch: The father of Small Renewable Energy Systems

LED Lights Natural ventilation Wind Circulation Multi-purpose Hall/ Dorm Hardly any nails

THE BEST TEACHERS ARE : EXAMPLE AND EXPERIENCE SCARCE AND FRAGILE FRESHWATER IS VULNERABLE TO DEPLETION AND CONTAMINATION ESP IN AN ISLAND COUNTRY LIKE THE PHILIPPINES

ELEVATED BATHING AREA Make it a little difficult to get water to make us better appreciate the value of fresh water- limited supply and fragile quality (Senior Citizens >65 exempted)

WATER (CLOSED LOOP WATER SYSTEMS); (WATER WELL, ELEVATED SHOWER, FLUSHING WATER, CLEANSE WASTE WATER BY WETLANDS LIVING THE PRINCIPLES

Waterless Light to improve trajectory Learning about marine life while ….

Water-proofed flowerpot AMMONIA COLLECTED AND USED FOR FLORA

METHANE CAPTURED IN A BIOGAS DIGESTER AND TURNED INTO COOKING GAS-INAUGURATED AND OPERATED ON MAY 2, ‘08

Students experiment to understand water pollution

3000 PLUS GRADUATES: Volunteer teachers of the Bantayan Island SEA Camp: Outreach – 7,000 THE BEST TEACHERS ARE? Ex… and Ex…

Design of School of the SEAs Reconstruction

Raised – on Stilts Roof-deck and walls made of plants and vegetables Totally recycle water (banyo) -- pump up, bathing, flushing, solid waste to biogas digester and cooking gas Totally powered by renewable energy

Plant boxes at Windows for climbing Vegetables

FILIPINO Genius at work in the World Trade Center

1 2007 expedition GEMS OF HOPE

Pan de Azucar Concepcion, Iloilo, 19 Apr 07 2 2 boats-toured the Visayan Sea April to May 2007 Physical Engineering 2006-2007 11°16'41.9" N 123°11'10.4" E

36 SITES 3 SITES 16 SITES 18 SITES TOTAL: 110 sites Engineering: Physical Engineering Underwater Survey: 2006 Visayan Sea Expedition <www.thelawofnature.org>

36 SITES 3 SITES 16 SITES 18 SITES Control Marine Resources Criminality

30,000 sticks, thank you IBP! Jovy

COMMERCIAL FISHING BOAT OWNERS

Blast fishermen Commercial fishing intrusions

Law enforcement must be swift, painful and public

Adversaries to Allies Program Our version of ‘Politics is addition’

De La Victoria earlier told reporters that he received information that there was a One Million reward for the person who could assassinate him and Oposa.

MORE RAIDS VS COMMERCIAL FISHING BOAT OWNERS As we speak…

January 27, 2009 Explosives Next week – Filing of Administrative and Anti-Graft Charges against ALL Barangay Officials – Gross and Inexcusable Negligence for allowing illegal activities to happen in their territorial jurisdiction

Enforcement FORESTS AND THE LAW

We lawyers are artists; Storytellers of the stories of our clients – people Trees: Law is thinking tool/medium of our art

800,000 hectares left of virgin forest 1988-logging done only in virgin forests 3.9 million hectares given to 92 logging corporations Purpose of the case– Not A LAWYER, ONLY Storyteller NOTE! Legal Question

March 1990 Enforce a Constitutional Provision

Their personality to sue in behalf of the succeeding generations can only be based on the concept of inter-generational responsibility Mark Twain: Confidence and Ignorance

While the right to a balanced and healthful ecology is to be found under the Declaration of Principles and State Policies and not under the Bill of Rights, it is no less important than any of the civil and political rights of human beings.

Such a right … concerns nothing less than the right to self-preservation and self-perpetuation, a right that may even be said to predate all governments and constitutions.”

If they are now specially mentioned in the fundamental law of the land, it is because … unless it is written in the constitution itself,

the day would not be too far when all else would be lost … not only for this generation but also for succeeding generations …. generations which stand to inherit nothing but a parched earth incapable of sustaining life.”

Not able to tell a story, but able to assert the right to tell a story in your behalf, In the process, sent a message to humanity Incidentally, DENR Banned all logging in virgin forests and 1992 NIPAS Law (RA 7586) Apply the principle of seven generations

The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH” – Dr. Kent Carpenter/ UN FAO Study AMAZON OF THE SEAS, PHILIPPINE SEA OF THE FORESTS

Water Pollution: Manila Bay 1990s-200 MPN OF FECAL COLIFORM >1,000,000 MPN 1989 Sagip Ilog ng Kabite; 1993 Ateneo Law Students 1998: UP Law 4 M GALLONS OF Raw sewage; every day If cared for, it can provide protein for the entire metro manila Source of great recreation – for free (not a Mall) 90 % of what fishermen catch was pure garbage Lack of Political will!

Supplant lack of political will with the --- WILL, FORCE and POWER, of the Law Have the Plan Implemented

Almost 4 years Jan 1999-Sept 2002

2006, now in the Supreme Court Thank you, PSAF and OSG Pro bono …

Why revolutionary? It creates an upheaval. Turn their world upside down and light a match under their butts

1. DENR – to implement Operational Plan to clean up Manila Bay 2. Local Governments – implement waste management programs 3. MWSS, 4. LWUA, sewage treatment 5. MMDA – Solid Waste Mgt 6. DPWH -- remove illegal structures from the waterways, 7. DepEd – environmental education, 8. DOH – monitor where septic and sludge excavators 9. Coast Guard - patrol vs illegal fishing 10. National Police -- Maritime Group } 11. DILG – all LGUs, implement Solid Waste Mgt 12. Philippine Port Authority 13. DBM-TO PROVIDE FUNDS 14. Dept of Agriculture – Bureau of Fisheries (BFAR)

Clean Up -Report to the SC 90 days - Preserve its cleanliness - Supreme Court into the Executive Functions ? Monitor -- compliance of the Plan that all the Government prepared and adopted. LIVING Decision!

1 to 1million , done only one

GIVING THEM A REASON TO TAKE SERIOUS ACTION

25 August 2009; Inquirer SEPT 5, 2009

DAVOS -- The world is heading toward "water bankruptcy" as demand for the precious commodity outstrips even high population growth, a new report warned Friday. In less than 20 years, water scarcity could lose the equivalent of the entire grain crops of India and the United States, said the World Economic Forum report, which added that food demand is expected to sky-rocket in coming decades. "The world simply cannot manage water in the future in the same way as in the past or the economic web will collapse," said the report. Water has been consistently under-priced in many regions and has been wasted and overused, the report said.

Benefits of Rainwater Catchment Ponds These rainwater collectors serve a myriad of benefits, among which are that they: Catch rainwater, and thereby significantly minimizing, if not altogether prevent flooding Store water and recharge the underground water (the “aquifer”). This is the underground ‘water well’ from whence we constantly draw with our water pumps, but which is not replenished. Serve as a water source, especially during the dry season, Provide for a habitat for fish and other aquatic lives that can be the source of protein for our hungry-poor brethren. The banks of the ponds (rainwater collectors) may be planted with vegetables, additional food source for all concerned. Rainwater collectors, ponds or mini lakes provide for a place for re-creation and recharge of the spirit. Nothing soothes nerves and spirits-- frayed and frazzled by modern-day living – than the sight and company of water. Rainwater collectors provide restorative economic activities to unemployed. The economic activity will not only restore the supply of the second most important life-element – water – it will also restore the connection between man and Nature. The underground water well (the ‘aquifer’) is like a bank account. If we constantly withdraw from it but do not replenish it, what happens? The deposit ‘dries up’. In the case of water, the drying up is quite literal.

SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINES REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA The Global Legal Action vs. Climate Change , A citizens’ group herein represented by private citizens ANTONIO OPOSA, JR., ANTONIO MARABE, CEASAR MORANDARTE, ___ CLEMENTE, ____, VOLTAIRE ALFEREZ, ______, ANNA R. OPOSA, KAREN JIMENO, LINDA JIMENO, JANNET CRUZ-REGALADO, BERNICE C. MENDOZA, CLAIRE DEMAISIP, Petitioners, Special Civil Action No .______ For: MANDAMUS to compel the - versus - construction of Rainwater Collectors pursuant to Rep. Act. Nos. 6716 and 7160 THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT, particularly THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, now occupied by the Chief Executive Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, herein represented by EXECUTIVE SECRETARY LEANDRO R. MENDOZA ,

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS, represented by THE HON. SECRETARY VICTOR A. DOMINGO , DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, represented by THE HON. SECRETARY RONALDO V. PUNO , THE UNION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF THE PHILIPPINES (ULAP), REPRESENTED BY ITS INCUMBENT PRESIDENT THE HON. MAYOR BENJAMIN C. ABALOS, JR. , ALL MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF CITIES OF THE PHILIPPINES (LCP) Philippines, represented by its President The Honorable Benjamin C. Abalos, Jr. , ALL MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PHILIPPINES (LMP), represented by its President The Honorable Ramon N. Guico, Jr. , ALL MEMBERS OF THE LIGA NG MGA BARANGAY SA PILIPINAS Pilipinas, represented by its incumbent President, the Honorable Ricojudge Janvier M. Echiverri , ALL MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF PROVINCES OF THE PHILIPPINES (LPP) represented by its President, The Honorable Governor Loreto Leo S. Ocampos , AS NECESSARY PARTIES: The DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES (DENR) represented by THE HON. SECRETARY HORACIO RAMOS , THE CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION, represented by THE HONORABLE HEHERSON T. ALVAREZ, Respondents.

MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the government to answer a petition of a group of environmentalists seeking the creation of rainwater collectors in the country. SC spokesman Midas Marquez said the national government agencies led by Malacañang, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government representing the 80 provinces, 150 cities, 1,400 towns and 42,000 barangays were given 10 days to comment on the petition filed by the group. SC allowed the petition of the Global Legal Action on Climate Change calling on the national government to come up with a more effective nationwide flood control project by implementing a 1989 law for rainwater collectors in all barangays.

School of the SEAs (Inaugurate -April 22, 2010) Sailing School of the SEAs (Launch April 22, 2010) Operation Daybreak – a massive and extensive Air-Land-and Sea Operation vs illegal fishing in the Visayan Sea

TEAM COMPOSITION: Educator Marine biologists/Scuba divers Community organizer Law enforcement officer/s (pref also divers ) Crew (at least 2). Lawyers on board and on call

Protocol: Organize the Youth, Schools, Local Governments down to Bgy level. Educational activities: Film Showing – Sangtwaryo Underwater viewing of localities (result of our preliminary UW survey Social Mobilization – LGUs, formal and informal Leaders, Youth Logistics Ordinance Drafting and Adoption Buoy-laying of MPA Departure

Plan to use the Law to spark a revolution (?) Turn-around of the mindset From wasteful use to wise and sustainable use

Convert awareness into action Brushing teeth – use a glass of water instead of letting the water run. Turn off lights when not needed. Do not put TV on Stand-By (70% of the electricity consumed)-1000 MW (1 GW) In the US Shut off leaking water, report water leakages Use lower watt lights. Segregate your wastes: Paper and Plastics in one box (sell later), ‘wet’ waste (food wastes, leaves, organic material – put in a compost More important … you teach by example

Repairing the damage done Eco-tourism Restoring Soils, etc. Putting up MPAs

When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he becomes a sage (a wise man) When a sage gains wisdom, he becomes …. an ordinary man When a simple man makes money, he becomes rich man When a rich man gains the wealth of wisdom, he becomes a simple man

WE ALL HAVE A ROLE – THE POWER OF ONE! Mosquito-Stopping in a highway:

FEW ELITE LEADERS INTEREST GROUPS VOTING POPULATION THE FILIPINO MASSES - No significant influence over important decisions especially on those critical to the Environment

1. Educate and Empower 2. Enable to exercise power to effect real positive change beginning within each of us Our VISION: A REVOLUTION – Revolution defined: a TURN AROUND. NOT just that: Turn it Upside Down!

Those who have less in wheels must have more in road Preferential policy for collective and non-pollutive locomotion systems (trams, trains, rail-bus, wide pedestrian lanes, wide bike lanes

THANK YOU: DENSO-DOLE-Green Working Environment you, share with you the new wave of economics. Catch it, or drown. Ordinary citizens, YOUTH … 20 yrs ago (right to speak and take action. Now … it is up to you to take action.) The time for talk is over, it is time for action A GREAT MOVEMENT MAY BE BORN IN THE MINDS OF THE FEW, BUT IT MUST BE SPOKEN BY THE MOUTHS OF MANY, AND CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF ALL What light through yonder window breaks? oft-quoted

Let it be said that in our time, And during our watch, We did our share,

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