5 MAGIC WORDS

● PLEASE​: It wouldn't be nice asking someone to help you out with something without
adding the word please.

For example you say "please could you help me zip my dress?
This is applicable for your mate, junior and senior.It's always good you use it when making a
request from someone.
The magic behind the word is that it can make someone help you even help the person never
planned doing that.
Your approach really matters!

● SORRY/I'M SORRY: The word "Sorry" is used to render an apology to someone you
have offended, though some people find it so hard to say sorry or feel sorry for what they
have done because they feel they should be apologised to or they feel big being the one
to apologise (Pride).

Either way the best thing is to apologise whenever you wrong someone.
The word sorry brings healing, the magic behind it is that it also brings forgiveness and peace of
mind.
Most times people want to forgive but because the person that offended them haven't
acknowledged that fact it's always hard and it brings enmity.
Saying sorry never cost a thing, rather it helps you feel better without bearing grudges for
anyone.

● THANK YOU​: This is used to appreciate someone for something good the person has
done, we still have some people that are never grateful for anything rather they always
feel cheated or the person haven't done enough.

This is very wrong, let's learn to appreciate people no matter how little what they did is.
A proverb in igbo says "Ekele ome ya emegwi ya ozo", this means that when you appreciate
someone for something done,the person will do more.
And this is just the magic, nobody wants to do more for someone that is always ungrateful
unless is your mother, you know mothers never give up.
If you have ever experienced that you would understand better. When you always appreciate
people for little things they would look for the one that is bigger to do for you.

● PARDON ME​: This word shows that you have acknowledged your mistake and you are
truly sorry. It saves you from further punishments you should have received for your
actions and leaves the person with no other choice.

The magic is also that it brings healing and forgiveness.

● EXCUSE ME​: This word could be used in various ways: To take permission, maybe to
leave a meeting or people, is also a polite of telling someone to leave the way for you.

For example, when you are in the midst of people or a discussion you could use the word to
step out a bit and attend to your caller rather than walking out without any notification.
Secondly is always nice you used to tell someone to leave the way for you rather than trying to
squeeze yourself within the path or pushing the other person standing.
It's just a polite word for having your way.
The magic is that it leaves you without having to argue with people.

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LOREN LEGARDA

A passionate environmentalist, Loren started her campaign for environmental protection and
preservation in the 1980s when she became broadcast journalist.
During her incumbency as Senator, she actively espoused for the passage of important
environmental measures such as the Philippine Clean Air Act (RA 8749) and the Ecological Solid
Waste Management Act (RA 9003).
Apart from this, she also espoused the clean up of toxic wastes left behind by former United States
military bases in Subic and Clark, and has helped provide medical assistance to children who were
victims of toxic waste contamination.
Among her co-authored laws on environmental protection are: Mt. Kitanglad Range Protected Area
(RA 8978), Batanes Group of Islands Protected Area (Ra 8991), and the Conservation and
Protection of Wildlife Resources Act (RA 9147).
In 2009, she espoused for the passage of the Climate Change Law, a landmark legislation that is
considered as a model for other nations.
As current Chairwoman of the Climate Change Oversight Committee of the Senate, Loren ensures
that climate change, including adaptation and disaster risk reduction, is addressed as a national
priority and considered in policy making and development planning.
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GINA LOPEZ

Regina ‘Gina’ Lopez, an environmental activist, former Environmental Secretary to Philippine

president Rodrigo Duterte, and member of the business elite, has been awarded the 2017
Seacology Prize for her opposition to mining and work to improve ecosystems across the islands of
the Philippines

The Philippines is blessed with unrivalled biodiversity, helped by the fact that we are an island
nation. We have many endemic island species – species that cannot be found anywhere else.
Open-pit mining, if allowed to continue in such ecological significant areas, could pollute the water,
the air and destroy the long-term value of these places as sustainable resources for the people who
live there, or for ecotourism projects. It is short-sighted.

Wherever there is mining, people suffer. Farmers and fisherman find it harder to do their jobs and
health deteriorates. Pro-miners’ main argument is that it creates jobs, but at what cost? You create a
few jobs so that thousands can suffer – is that the kind of economy you want to build? The suffering
is for generations. After mining, water sources have to be detoxified generations afterward,
something that the companies often neglect to do. Of course, it will create a few jobs and put up
some schools in the beginning but there are other ways to work and to educate.

In Basay province, the toxicity is 500 times over the maximum level, and the mining stopped there in
1982. However, when I stood in front of a few hundred locals to talk about it, I was scared because
they didn’t seem worried. Then I realised that it is probably because it is all they know. What
happens when the generation that could remember fish in the sea and clean water are all gone? All
the young people will accept this as reality as its the only one they have ever known – there is no
reference point for when it was better for them. It is a shifting baseline, a death of consciousness.

Palawan Island was where I first discovered the destructive nature of open-pit mining. It is home to
several indigenous communities such as the Molbog, the Batak and the Palaw’an people. Many live
in poverty, despite the fact that it is breathtakingly gorgeous, the number one island destination on
the planet. It has 40 per cent of the country’s remaining mangrove forests and 30 per cent of its coral
reefs. It is also very mineralised. So when I arrived there were over 100 applications for open-pit
mining, I set up the Save Palawan movement to oppose them.

From then, my opposition to mining drew a lot of criticism from the government. Many of our elected
representatives have a stake in open-pit mining economy and do not want to see it banned in the
Philippines.

When I was appointed as Environmental Secretary to President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016, I dismissed
100 people from the department because they were involved in large-scale mining such as a huge
project planned for the breadbasket of Mindanau. Then I cancelled the approval of 75 mines in the
pipeline. After just ten months I was dismissed because they felt I did not follow due process for
these actions, though I felt that I was upholding the people’s rights in the Philippine constitution. That
was what was important to me.

Any development that is carried out in the Philippines has to be done with the constitution at its heart
which says, in no uncertain terms, in many areas that social justice and common good is the way to
go. Instead, the law is often used to support business interests, and where there is opposition, the
military is used to support those interests.

That’s not to say that all forms of tourism are the answer. Any ecotourism development has to first
and foremost answer the needs of the host community and its surroundings. We have an island
called Borocay, which is one of our most popular destinations. But the people that live on the island
are separate from it. That’s not the kind of tourism that we need. We need non negotiable
commitment to people’s lives.

The prize money is going to be used to set up a new foundation called ILOVE – or Investments in
Loving Organisations for Village Economies. It is based on the fundamental idea that local and
environmental needs should be at the centre of new projects and investment. In the end,
development that doesn’t truly care for people will eventually become exploitative.
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