SunStar Editorial: Restoring ecology in the pandemic
GREEN COMMITMENT. Governments should include in pandemic recovery plans and funds for restoring the ecology, a mindset that seems to be strikingly absent in the public discourse on how communities plot post-pandemic futures. (SunStar file)
+ June 06, 2021 Last June 5, World Environment Day, amongst the stream of images and posts on social media was Nena Jane Achacoso’s challenge to other citizens to plant six trees per month, “enough to compensate for the CO2 emissions we produce.”
Reflecting on a report uploaded on the Rainforest Action Network’s (RAN) website that “approximately 3.5 billion to 7 billion trees” are cut every year, the University of Philippines Cebu alumna and digital content producer said in a June 5 post on Facebook that planting and caring for six trees a month is her personal commitment to “plant the seed for a better tomorrow.”