Cebu Regis Leadership Call to Arms by Dr. Kerwin Mark L. Gubantes

Dear Prof Jorge,
Good evening! How are you? I hope everything is well . I am sending you this Advocacy speech of mine, I hope you find it interesting.

Cheers!
Kerk

CEBU REGIS LEADERSHIP
Call to ARMS - My Advocacy
Leader Kerwin Mark L. Gubantes, MD

Ladies and Gentlemen, friends, friends of Mother Earth, good Morning! It is with great concern that I am before you today. As you could see around you and witness firsthand the destruction Mankind has brought upon our Home Planet. Greenhouse gases polluting the atmosphere and the air that we breath, increasing carbon dioxide levels from every source imaginable is elevating the temperature of our planet. This phenomenon leads to Melting of the Ice Shelves and consequently leads to rising sea levels and warming of the waters. Furthermore there are already signs of bleaching and destruction of the coral reefs documented in many parts of the planet such that there is already disruption of the Marine ecosystem and thus depletion of the food supply chain. The changing weather patterns, stronger typhoons and Hurricanes, longer droughts in many parts of the world as well as the rise of many deadly diseases can all be traced to the wanton destruction of Mother Earth. When is it going to stop? When do we start to realize what we have done? What are we going to do about it?

Maybe we could start by looking inwards first, our very lives, how we conduct our day to day activities. Are we conserving energy? How can we lessen our carbon footprint? Maybe instead of cutting trees, we should start Planting again. We could start using energy efficient devices to reduce our need for power. Let us shift our focus on Renewable sources of energy like Solar, Geothermal, Wind and Hydroelectric to generate power to supply our needs. These sources will significantly cut the need for fossil fuels like coal which is widely used today to generate electricity.

Call to Arms Speech by Rony Cabuyadao - Reducing Carbon Footprint

My Call to Reduce Carbon Footprint

by Rony Cabuyadao

 

Good evening, fellow leaders.

Is anyone in this room knows his/her current level of carbon footprint?  If your answer is 'negative', I encourage you to compute for it later tonight.  There are many carbon footprint calculators available on the web for you to choose from.  But, first, what is carbon footprint?  Why is it important to know about it?

Carbon footprint is a measure of the effect we have on the climate in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases we produce, measured in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide or CO2.  It is how much carbon goes into the air because of something done by people (not by nature).  Many of our daily activities generate carbon emissions, which have an impact on the health of the environment.

Oil, gas, and coal are called "fossil fuels" because they came from fossils of ancient plants and animals.  Those plants and animals had carbon in them.  So when we burn oil, gas, and coal, the carbon becomes CO2 and goes into the air as smoke.  This makes pollution.  It also makes the greenhouse effect, which means that CO2 makes the earth warmer, like a greenhouse.  Just as walking on the sand leaves a footprint, burning fuel leaves CO2 in the air, which is the carbon footprint.

Once your size of a carbon footprint is known, a strategy can be planned to reduce it.  There are many suggested ways on how we can reduce our carbon footprint.  Most of those that I will share are taken from the website www.cotap.org.  Actually, most of them are not new to us; we have heard them before.