Ocean Month underscores climate change adaptation
SAN JOSE, Antique – The Month of May is Ocean Month, an annual celebration that reminds us to conserve our water resources. Water is created to sustain life on earth. Freshwater sustains life on land while salt water sustains life of living things in marine areas.
This year’s theme “Protect Our Seas for Climate Change Adaptation” underscores the conservation of life in the ocean and preparedness to adapt the current and future challenges on climate change.
The Coastal Area, as part of the ocean, is the nearest place of human beings to have an utmost concern because it is not only the beginning of marine life, it is the source. Big fishes swimming deeper into the ocean comes from the spawning ground called coastal ecosystems. Thus to ensure the sustainability of the fishes, we have to protect the breeding grounds.
The Ocean is also a vast dumping ground of our waste, particularly nuclear waste and other hazardous chemicals that our land could no longer contain. It is also the testing area for atomic bombs and other weapons manufactured by man in order to gain international power. All these activities destroy our ocean waters and floors.
Like our forest, our seas and coasts provide us with food, medicines and a lot of other products, which help improve the quality of our lives. (PIA/DENR)