Republic Act 9512 or National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

Its objective is to increase awareness of everyone in the preservation of our

environment. Most of us known that we should protect and clean our surroundings. In
this act it lets us educate and provide an environmental awareness about how we
should care and protect our own planet. If this law isn’t implemented ever since,
humanity is now ruined and destroyed. I think this republic act is not enough to save us
from incoming disaster or even calamities. But in those past years our environment is
continually becoming neater but some are not aware of the environment.

As a part of this society, I definitely would agree to this policy. Because they
inform us if there is a typhoon that is coming in our country, they prevent the typhoon
by informing us to be ready. Environmental awareness is very important to us because
of DepEd, CHED, TESDA, DSWD, DENR, DOST, and other relative agencies, shall integrate
environmental education in its school curricula at all levels, whether public or private,
including in barangay daycare, preschool and other learning places and programs.
Environmental Education shall encompass environmental concepts and principles,
environmental law, the state of international and local environment, local
environmental best practices, the threats of environmental degration and its impact on
human well-being, the responsibility of the citizenry to the environment and the value
of conservation, protection and rehabilitation of natural resources and the environment
in the context of sustainable development.

As a student and part of this world, I want to preserve our environment even if
others are not because others say “Progress is impossible without change, and those
who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”. And nowadays saving the
environment is not an issue anymore. It is a survival truth. Individuals, organizations,
and governments need to come together and join hands to protect what is left of our
planet so that the future is not wiped out before its time for curtain call.