FEEDBACK

FROM NELSON PAGUYO:

My take: Many Filipinos are tree haters. They would not hesitate to cut a tree – sapling or matured – for the benefit of fire wood, commercial value or a backyard space. Travel from north to south and you’ll see denuded mountains and land where virgin forest use to be, flooding, land slides, illegal or legal logging without reforestation, uncontrolled development without environmental impact studies, etc.

Why (?)! Greed and lack of foresight to satisfy the immediate needs; a common quality of many.

Nelson

Nelson, please distinguish between killing a tree to survive and killing for
the sake of road-widening. The prez wannabee thinks he is holier than
God and so if you pass by Katipunan fronting Ateneo and Miriam College
(former Maryknoll) you'll only see now asphalt roads. Small trees have
been planted here and there but they never compare with the old acacia
trees whose branches and leaves used to embrace the other trees on the
other side of the road creating a very shaded avenue and cooling us. But if you visit Marikina you might recognize some of the trees there and say-- hmm, they look familiar!

Emma