Filipino Poor to Suffer Most from Brownouts, Climate Change

…Unfortunately, an environmental activist group warned that the recent incidents of extreme heat and power shortages in Luzon are just the beginning of more climate change-related phenomena that would affect the Filipino poor the most.

“We should brace for more extreme heat spells and its effects on our power, water, and agricultural systems, and on the millions of Filipinos living below the poverty line,” warned Clemente Bautista, Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) national coordinator.


…”It’s the ‘little people’ in the Philippines who suffer most from heat spells and extreme weather conditions caused by climate change: those who do not have access to electricity, let alone the luxury of air conditioning and other amenities or travel to cooler climates, for example,