Climate change. Time to change.

Yolanda is a name that brings painful and tragic memories not only to the residents of Tacloban but also to all Filipinos around the globe. Typhoon Yolanda also called Typhoon Haiyan, was one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, which devastated the Visayan Region in the Philippines, on November 8, 2013. It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing more than 6,000 Filipinos.

Yolanda is a direct effect of climate change. Because of the destruction of our ozone layer due to air pollution, planet Earth is warming up, melting our Arctic and extremely heating our ocean. This combination usually give birth to powerful typhoons. Since the Philippines is a group of tropical islands right at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, it is also favorite path of typhoons during the rainy season. Because of global warming, new typhoons visiting the Philippines are getting stronger and more destructive.

After typhoon Yolanda in 2013, other destructive typhoons visited the Philippines which claimed innocent lives and destroyed billion worth of properties. When will this stop?

I believe that climate change and global warming is here to stay, we can no longer stop it but we can only minimize its effects. We should learn to adopt and we should always be prepared. Awareness is also a key, we should do our share not to further aggravate the situation. Let's try to minimize our waste, stop polluting our air and our waters, let's preserve our environment, preserve our trees, do your share and let us influence others to do the same.

Now is the time, time to change. Begin today, start with you.

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