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Story of the King
Oceans – Seas:
Flooding
Issues and strategies
A taste of what the Court has done
And can do.
The Story of the
King
CRISIS
danger
opportunity
Story
-The first shoe, Crisis, Conservation of Life-sources,
-Mind-shift – a new norm of behavior
-from wasteful use to use that is wise and sustainable
“We cannot solve a problem using the same mindset that created the
problem in the first place.”
Two words
reflecting
the
mindsets
1. Environment
2. Development
ENVIRONMENT?
Environment- is
NOT about birds
and bees,
LIFE and Sources of Life
Land, Air and Water
(LAW)
Vital Organs of LIFE
- Trees and forestsHeart and Lungs
- Land & soil - skin
and flesh
- Sea and waterways –
blood and
bloodstreams
- Land, Air and Water
(LAW) of LIFE
- Foundation of all
economic
activities
- Economy is only
a very minor
subsidiary of the
Life-Support
Systems (Life
Sources)
- What will we do
with money if
you do not have
water, air is dirty,
and food is
poisoned
Development
• Conventional
paradigm of
Consumptionbased Economics
• US, Britain, etc.,
Are they developed
economies?
• Economics- def.
efficient use of
scarce resources.
• 5% of people30% of resources?
Economic
development
Based on use,
abuse and misuse
of the life sources
Following the
wasteful lifestyle
of the OCC
Need 9 earths
to satisfy the
consumption
patterns
Is Waste
Economical?
“Developed
Economy” -contradiction
of terms?
• We cannot solve a problem using the same mindset
that created the problem in the first place? Question:
What is that mindset? Ex-con
• Opposite : CPR - Conservation, Protection and
Restoration
• Developed and
Developing
• Over-consuming
Countries
• Low consuming
countries
• Change words,
meanings,
mindsets
•CarpenASEAN Seaster,
K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds),
• 6 volumes,
4218 pp
1998 - 2001
> 100 experts
contributing
Seaweeds, corals,
bivalves, gastropods,
cephalopods,
crustaceans, hagfishes,
sharks, batoid fishes,
chimaeras, bony fishes,
sea turtles, sea snakes,
estuarine crocodile, and
marine mammals
• The Indo-MalayPhilippine Archipelago
(IMPA) –
Sulu-Sulawesi Marine
Triangle
The CENTER OF MARINE
Life-forms ON EARTH
The “PHILIPPINES IS THE
CENTER OF THE CENTER
OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY
ON EARTH”
– Dr. Kent Carpenter/
UN FAO Study
September 13,
2004
ThreatsIssues
• Blast fishing
• Cyanide fishing
• Commercial fishing in
prohibited municipal
waters, Shark finning
• Illegal trade of
endangered marine
species (corals,
certain kinds of shells
and fishes).
• Climate ChangeOcean acidification
Insidious
Threats
Threat of a
neighbor
claiming
exclusive
ownership of
the ASEAN
Seas
Action Plan
FISH Catch– 90 to 95%
in some, facing total collapse
Call it: Revenue, Income
Revenue
Income
Profit, GNP
The “PHILIPPINES IS THE
CENTER OF THE CENTER
OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY
ON EARTH”
– Dr. Kent Carpenter/
UN FAO Study
Water Pollution: Manila Bay
1990s-200 MPN OF FECAL COLIFORM >1,000,000 MPN
Almost 4
years
Jan
1999Dec
2008
News articles
Oral Argument in the Supreme Court August 12,
2008
• News articles:
Fish is coming back to Manila Bay, 2012
Criminal syndicates
LARGEST IN PHILIPPINE
HISTORY
3 kms of detonating
fuse
Cebu
30,000 sticks, thank you IBP! Jovy
CREATIVE PENOLOGY
Flooding: A FORETASTE OF THINGS TO COME
Telling Another Story: Floods
Fast forward- 6 months later
Water is Life
A little review of basic science
Altered State of Nature
Altered surface of the
land, and heavier rains
Picture in a state of the nature
MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the government to
answer a petition of a group of environmentalists seeking the creation of
rainwater collectors in the country.
SC spokesman Midas Marquez said the national government agencies led by
Malacañang, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the
Department of the Interior and Local Government representing the 80 provinces,
150 cities, 1,400 towns and 42,000 barangays were given 10 days to comment on
the petition filed by the group. SC allowed the petition of the Global Legal Action
on Climate Change calling on the national government to come up with a more
effective nationwide flood control project by implementing a 1989 law for
rainwater collectors in all barangays.
Courts:
1.Tell a story in an orderly manner - Resolution
2.Trigger action—shield public officials from
political pressure
3.Spark the needed mind-shift
Global Warming and Climate
Change
High FEVER
Crisis : Gravest threat to
Mankind
Greatest Opportunity
CRISIS
danger
•SYMPTOMS OF A BIGGER DISEASE
opportunity
“After all is said and done, more is
said than done”
Doha and UNFCCC
April 2012
Global Legal Action
On Climate Change
Children and
Top Lawyers of the
world
Prepare legal forms
and templates
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Global Notice to Sue
by children and lawyers of the worldHold this generation, represented by our govertnments
responsible for inter-generational damages:
Tsunami of legal actions around the world
Philippines – lead in the transformation the road
system from this
• 30% Sidewalks
• 30% Bike lanes
• 30% (for Filipino-made
collective, non-pollutive
transit system)
• 10% urban edible garden
• Not a request. It is a
legal petition that
government must act
on.
Sec. 9, Exec. Order 774
(2008)
Sec. 9. Task Group on Fossil Fuels.
a. The DOTC shall lead to transform
the transportation sector. The new
paradigm in the movement of men and
things must follow a simple principle:
“Those who have less in wheels must
have more in roads”. For this purpose,
the system shall favor non-motorized
locomotion and collective transportation
systems (walking, bicycling, and the
man-powered mini-train).
b.The DOTC and the DPWH shall
immediately transform roads using
aforesaid principle.
c.The DILG shall coordinate with all LGUs
to transform the road system to favor
persons who have no motorized
vehicles.
Thank you
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Judiciary of Malaysia – CJ Arifin – Environment Court
ADB-Kala
Chief Justices and Justices of the ASEAN
“With great power comes great
responsibility”
“To whom much is given, from whom much is
required”
• Supreme Court of the Philippines
– Judicial path-breaking - example for the rest of the
world
Recent initiative to reduce the ridiculous volume of
paper submitted in Court filings
Waste segregation in Courts – ASEAN?
Two
Take-Home
Messages
Two Take Home
1.Environment is Life, Life-sources, Life-forms— Land, Air and Waters
LAW of Life
2. The time for talk is over
Messages
“Vision without action is nothing but a dream. Action
without vision merely passes the time. But action with
vision can, and WILL, change the world.”