Think about it
Too late
By Jun Velasco
GLOBAL Warming and Climate Change. These are the catchwords these days. The problem is they have come to mean suffering, despair, pain, anguish and death.
We are moved by Filipinos’ instantaneous acts of love, sympathy, pity, care and concern.
Again, the problem is we act too late. We should have prevented these lamentable things to happen had we obeyed our laws on environment in the first place.
As early as the 70’s, we have been decrying the wanton cutting down of trees in the mountains and hills in violation of the law. What happened? Grease money did it. Why are there thousands of squatters along our river ways? Same answer. Grease money.
And so the picture is pathetic. We are frantic, we are in a rush, we cry out to heaven for succor, we invoke the name of God when it’s too late, we instantly become our brother’s keeper now that he is great distress. Are we sure we truly love him — or we are merely fearing that his sad fate would happen to us?
Some times the disaster, the calamities, and the sufferings have given us the best opportunity to awaken our slumbering nobility. We are now rushing relief and aid to our fallen brothers, a touching sight in deed, but we should have done better when the world was not yet a battered if hopeless planet.
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It took someone in the US – columnist Gons Duque – to tip us about startling political news in our fourth congressional district, that our high school buddy Solo de Venecia is planning to run for congress in Uncle Joe’s district.
We called up Solo to verify Gonzalo’s report, and he confirmed it.
During his student days, Solo and Teddy Manaois, then a law student, clashed on the presidency of the Dagupan City Varsitarians. Solo beat Teddy whose father, the late Opring was Dagupan city mayor. We remember then newly elected Congressman Joe was Solo’s tutor. How his running, if true till election day, will, in our view, only play second fiddle to its effect on the solid De Venecia Clan.
We hope bruised feelings will be healed soon which we believe should even be higher than politics.
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