War footing needed for Philippines survival against global warming

Wind power is one of the renewable energy sources that can be harnessed in the effort to save ourselves from disasters due to climate change

The Philippines is vulnerable to the quadruple-whammy effects of global warming.

These are rising sea levels, floods spawned by killer typhoons, dwindling water supplies induced by droughts and shriveling food supplies from parched farmlands.
The melting of the Greenland ice caps could cause sea level to rise up to 7 meters, equivalent to the height of three adult Filipinos. Small islands like Guimaras would get submerged, and low level areas like Malabon, Navotas and Manila will experience even more floods.

Half of the country’s 1,500 towns ring our coastline with half of the population depending on seafood as a primary source of protein. A 1-meter increase in sea levels could put 64 of the country’s 81 provinces, or 80 percent, in harm’s way.

A 1-meter rise in sea levels could affect 700 million square meters of Philippine coastal lands.

Already, 79.7 million square meters are at risk in the most vulnerable island province of Sulu. In Palawan, 64.2 million square meters are vulnerable.

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The country has a lot of potential in reducing its emissions by tapping rich sources of clean energy such as wind, solar and hydro power. The Philippines has a potential, for example, of producing 72,000 megawatts from wind power that can be tapped to replace its coal- and oil-fired power plants.

Manila Times