Ban plastics now

PAGING all sanggunian bodies in Pangasinan.

Climate change is upon us and it’s bad enough that our local governments have not established nor adopted mitigating measures to minimize its deathly impact on communities. Worse, our local governments continue to maintain open dumpsites in the province. Neither do we see a discipline in trash segregation.

Unless and until our local governments recognize the serious risks and threats posed by absence of a deliberate and conscious policy to protect our environment, soon communities will be suffering from uncontrolled epidemics and calamities triggered by a wasted environment.

If only to help create high awareness about need to protect our environment, let us collectively agree to ban the use and distribution of plastic products by small and big establishments. Let us ban the use of disposable plastic straws, wrappers, bags initially.

Such a ban will realistically take more than a year to fully implement, especially if not all towns and cities have adopted the ban. It is imperative, therefore, for Sangguniang Panlalawigan to sound the alarm and send the signal expressly directing the adoption of an ordinance by all local governments banning use of disposable plastics by commercial establishments.

It has to be done today. Tomorrow will be too late for Pangasinan.

We never learn

WHEN it’s too good to be true, chances are that’s a fake.  That’s a saying as old as the Last Supper.  But still, some people believe, are stubbornly gullible.  Isn’t there also an adage that says a sucker is born every minute? 

These things come to mind again in view of the extra-hot controversy hounding the nation: the Kapa religious sect is another investment scam as per Pres. Duterte himself.  You donate money to Kapa. By month’s end, you get 30 percent of your donation described as a “blessing.”  That’s a lot! But Kapa’s branches nationwide have closed down after its office in Davao was raided this week by the National Bureau of Investigation. It was reported that Kapa officials had stashed away no less than P50 billion of people’s hard-earned money.

Thousands of “donors” are weeping, their monies gone. Who’s to blame?  Simply put, we never learn.

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