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Experiences, Ideas & Observation on

Environmental Advocacy
By Ronald Valledor Gomeseria, Ph.D. – January 2019 (Republished)

Figure 01, Biodiversity Conservation of Majestic Asik-Asik Falls, North Cotabato, Philippines

This article paper has been published through Durreesamin Journal as a series of Environmental Advocacy
& Conservation Personal Journal & Reflections compositions for the subject course at the University of the
Philippines. The beauty of the environment reflects on individual characters they inherited from their
childhood until they become a real adult. Because of the talent we have, we observe the behavioral
differences between environments and from the situation wherever we stand for. Individual experiences
can’t be denied as they open their eyes and as they walk by through whatever observation gathered.
Through whatever experiences and observations we learned in our environment, which stimulates our
ideas on either negatively or positively adjunct to individual attitudes for future ecosystem admiration.

Insight
With the observation, ideas and experiences we have had to collate aligning to our philosophical term
“environmental advocacy” which immense depending on individual careers, vocations, and activities
especially for love to the environment on the way whereas an individual can express somehow. However,
the picture (Figure 01) that the author presenting in this paper is about the article's image headline as
what the author’s still dreaming that whenever he can get back home, the author can see the same as he
left his beloved country. Which nice to look at and filling up with peace of mind and the serenity of the
place that can bring you with a bright and beautiful mind where the Philippines is one of the richest in
natural resources that can’t be imagined, but let us focus on the environment whereas the author is
working on, “Experiences, ideas, and observation on Environmental advocacy.
The article paper intends to expound some changes in the places where we live based on the subject of
environmental advocacy and as one of the alumni and graduate students of the University of the
Philippines to explore with gathered experiences, observation and ideas with the author’s advocacy.

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Climate Change, a Lesson needs to Understand as an Advocate

However, as you can notice, year after year, our environment has changed dramatically due to the climate
change phenomenon whereas it becomes global problems and issues. I can’t deny but it is true, and I do
believe that is the reality that is now happening in our environment with Climate Change around the globe.
It changes and keeps changing the entire ecosystem based on the facts of researchers and developments
conducted by the scientists of the scholars from Westerners being funded and disperse for us to be
informed and aware of it. And these have been validated by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA) where hundreds of independent and governmental scientific organizations which have
been released of the same statements worldwide and repeatedly concluded with the same sentiments
whereas almost around 97% scientists agreed due to their findings because of the followings;
1. Unequivocally warning, and
2. Human activity as the primary cause.
The greenhouse effect causes Climate Change, the author may say, on the other hand, the Middle East in
the present generation is one of the contributors of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, accordingly, where
CO2 trapped more heat which will make the whole planet warmer and warmer that lead into changing the
environment than the usual norm. These are one of those activities acted upon by the human on earth
with a simple formula of the underlying physics on how our Earth system works a warmer. With climate
change, adding extra CO2 and other greenhouses gas emissions from the building-built environment in the
atmosphere are due to the environmental possibilism, which contributes around the globe of massive
infrastructure development around the world. As well as that the most concrete visible we have now in our
generation, and most common examples of the causes and impacts in contributing to climate change,
which has been developed are due to economic demand and values of the countries around the world
relevance to the human activities as such;
1. Industrial Revolution,
2. Agricultural Advancement, and
3. Technological revolution.
Wherein Rambo implied that in the system model of human ecology whereas both the social system and
the ecosystem are interacting with each other, however, integrity as a system will retain the same but
changing the structural configuration according to their internal dynamics. In other words and with the
given explanations by Rambo on Socio-Cultural Principles of Human-Environment Interactions (Malayang;
1999), simplifies the social system-ecosystem interactions relationships that involve the system model of
human ecology which emphasizes in 4-relational aspects and they are as follows;

1. Ecosystem inputs into the social system,

2. Social system inputs into the ecosystem,
3. Institutional change with the social network in response to the ecosystem inputs, and
4. Changes in the ecosystem in response to the social system inputs.
With all the above observations conducted as an environmental advocate, experiences, ideas and the
given lesson materials from the environmental subject courses, the author may say, are very interesting to
know things about how the systems model whereas human ecology implies climate change. And the
author has nothing to say but the social system to the ecosystem and from ecosystem to social network of
relevances and implications towards society, where Climate Change needs to understand at all.

Comprehension of Environmental Change and Observation

Based on the facts with the given lesson materials and researches, the author realized and to be honest,
understanding Climate Change as an Environmental Advocate must understand first deeply how the
greenhouses gas effect in the ecosystem. Through with the means or whenever driving the car Electricity,

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mega-product in the factory as we used energy from oil and gas exploration due to their burning of fossils
that produce CO2 in the atmosphere that implies as follows:
1. Temperature is getting warmer,
2. Giant Ice sheets are melting,
3. Oceans are rising,
4. Flowers are blooming earlier,
5. Snow is melting earlier, and
6. Birds are not flying anymore.

Figure 02, the Effect of Denudation with the Climate Change (Source; Wikipedia)

Thereby, if the planet is getting warmer, the implication towards it will have a powerful storm, just like
what they have experiencing nowadays in the Philippines. Another thing because of denudation (Figure
02) causing flooding in the lowland area, droughts especially in the Middle East and heatwaves as always
experiencing, to be honest, Qatar is not the same as in the Philippines, which is prone to all calamities
throughout the year. However, as they are experiencing 50 to 55 degrees Celsius ambient temperature
during summer and suffering on heatwaves, but, that is a sign of climate change, yes it is, which the
author may say, an extreme temperature at all. The environment around the country is too hot, and from
then, the water from the fixture/faucet when you open it is super hot, and you cannot touch it for you to
wash your hand. Unfortunately, as speaking to colleagues that this temperature that they have
experienced is like the temperature being set in the microwave, imagine! But everybody is alive and
survives, and they are all here only for the money designed for the sake of their families as they left in the
Philippines. And with these experiences, this is amazing, and lucky to experience like this.
Moreover, the Climate Change effect on the country is entirely different from what they have experienced
in the Philippines based on observation. It is because Qatar is not vulnerable to it; however, the increase
in the temperatures throughout summer seems to become a nuisance than the usual way of living. And as
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a result, Qatar’s vulnerability is having a lack of freshwater whereby everybody knows that they are relying
on desalination as their water source in the country, as well as one of their food insecurity.
The image below (Figure 03) is usually done by the miners (Mining Companies) and the kaingineros as a
defined example of human activities that contribute to climate change also and most likely happening in
the Philippines. However, the most affected are those people living in the lowland areas which usually
suffered from erosion, flooding, and food security as they are relying their foods on the field. And with
Figure 03, how pity how they did it to the environment, just because of money to fatten their pocket?

Figure 03, the Mining Effect in the Upland Community (Source; New York Times)

Nowadays, the realization of what’s happening in the Philippine UPLANDS, which affected the whole
community at large and that is because of the previous government who are in the position practicing the
graft and corruption instead of the Filipinos. Why the author saying this, it is because of the agricultural
sector that has been declined for 3-decades after the Marcos Regime and the author didn’t see any
development that will sustain the needs of the farmers. The practice of kaingineros has not been
controlled and resolved the issues throughout the years, and that’s the effect of DENUDATION as
illustrated above as experience in both urban and rural areas. And with those repercussions, the country’s
don’t even have shelters in protecting the environment when the heavy rainstorm comes.
The Human-Cultural Ecology changes the entire ecosystem, which indeed people’s faults and this is part of
the Environmental Possibilism theory implies Socio-Cultural Principles of Human-Environment
Interactions (Malayang; 1999). And as an environmental advocate, this doesn’t help the country and the
global of this kind of practice in developing the country’s economic growth but graft and corruption.
However, regaining soil fertility won’t be applied unless the practice of kaingineros will be wipe-out in their
society so that soil erosion, degradation, and flooding be controlled with the use of engineering
technology.

Conclusion
As a conclusion with all the given facts, materials, observation, ideas, and experiences in this regard, and
to be honest, the author is not a genius like Einstein to know things and memorize them all words by
words, but the author can understand how these being implied and affected the environment. As an
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environmental advocate with a simple thought in working towards the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions can be done somehow, and as an Engineer by profession in meeting the challenges of climate
change can be applied in the respective design projects within the construction industry. However, reading
all the materials are very challenging for reading paragraphs by paragraphs that have the same thought to
learn, and as an environmentalist, we need to love the environment to save the planet Earth we live in,
and hence, a sustainable environment is sustained.

Write-Up References can be Read from this Links;

Gomeseria RV; (December 2018); "Environmental Advocacy & Conservation;’’ Durreesamin Journal
(ISSN: 2204-9827) December Vol 4 Issue 3, the Year 2018
ENRM 252, Environmental Advocacy; Master of Environment and Natural Resources
Management; University of the Philippines (UPOU), 2018

About the Author

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Er. Ronald Valledor Gomeseria, Ph.D. ME/PME, PE, PEng, CEng, CBuildE, CEnv, APEC (IntPE), ACPE, ASEANEng
Professional Engineer (Philippines, Qatar, India, UK); Chartered Engineer (India, UK); Chartered Environmentalist (India);
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Specialized Project Manager (UK); Master Project Manager (USA); Chartered Building Engineer (UK); ASEAN Engineer; ASEAN
Chartered Professional Engineer; APEC Engineer (IntPE); Mechanical Engineer (Phils); Plumbing Engineer / Master Plumber
(Phils); Master Electrician (Phils); Certified International Project Manager (USA)

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Post Graduate Diploma in Environment and Natural Resources Management major in Upland Resources Management (DENRM-URM, 1.78 GWA)
Post Graduate Diploma in Environment and Natural Resources Management major in Coastal Resources Management (DENRM-CRM) - Ongoing
University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines

Master of Science in Construction Management (36 Credit Units / 2016-2018, 1.14 GWA / 4.0 US GPA, Topnotch)
Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines

Master of Mechanical Engineering (48 Credit Units / 2010-2013, 3.78 US GPA, Magna Cum Laude)
Ph.D. in Building and Construction Engineering (65 Credit Units / 2016-2019, 4.0 US GPA, Summa Cum Laude)
Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (Ongoing)
Atlantic International University, USA

Master of Arts in Teaching major in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology | EARIST Manila, Philippines (1.12 GPA, 2002-2004)

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering | Bicol University, Legazpi City, Philippines

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