[OPINION] Where is the plan against extreme heat?

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'The heat wave occurs barely a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report, as if it was an ominous reminder of what is in store for us in the years ahead.' Opinion

This problem has always been associated more with disasters brought on by sudden onset events like tropical cyclones and extreme rainfall. Yet what we are experiencing now does not exactly constitute a disaster, based on the conventional definitions. Hot weather is not exactly new to Filipinos either, but this feels different.that has already set new temperature records across much of Asia.

With the way our country is warming, commuters would be placed at an even higher risk in numerous ways. This leaves those without any of these choices to experience the toll of the current transport system, but with higher heat indices. It is yet another example of Pope Francis’s statement from the Laudato Si’, that “the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest.”

 

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