Summary

- Howie Severino visited a site that seemed to have been swallowed by water. The
abandoned houses, schools, and churches of Sitio Pariahansa Bulacan can be seen
protruding from the widespread flood waters. Before, Pariahan was the center of
Barangay Taliptip in Bulakan, but now it is submerged in water. Upon their arrival at the
site, they will be exposed to dead mangroves and the remains of the former residences
of hundreds of residents. But in the middle of the water, it will be discovered.

They also did not all leave from there. There are a few people left on the site who have
nowhere else to go. Everyone has their own speculations on what happened to their
land and why it is no longer there. back again On the one hand, even though they lost
their land, their livelihood was still provided by the sea. But now, there is one that
threatens their habitat and livelihood: the plan for A Big Airport, or the Bulacan
Aerotropolis. This is a massive project that covers the entire site and will reclaim the land
in their area. What happened on the landless island is a warning to other towns and
barangays that are on the coast. The most often cited cause of land subsidence is
typhoons and other calamities.

Reflection
- Sitio Pariahan, their community, now has just slivers of land, barely enough to walk on.
In several Philippine coastal locations, disappearing land has become an increasingly
prevalent occurrence. However, as some speculate, climate change is not to blame for
the fast invasion of the sea.

Climate change is serious and poses a hazard to the entire globe. However, growing
knowledge of it has created another risk: It's become all too easy to blame climate
change for the constant flooding in many coastal communities surrounding Metro Manila.
And there is little Filipinos can do to halt or even delay climate change. Blaming climate
change might lead to feelings of powerlessness.