Manila's Cardinal Urges Filipinos To Help Save The Environment

The Cardinal enumerated ways on how Filipinos can help save the environment in their own individual ways like the use of less electricity and gasoline, planting trees, segregating garbage, and turning away from a highly consumerist and wasteful lifestyle.

On the national level, he said the government should encourage and prioritize the use of renewable sources of energy, which the Philippines is abundantly blessed with.

Rosales, however, stressed that Filipinos will not be successful in developing a new attitude unless they are sustained and nourished by a new vision.

"Let everyone be part of the solution, not of the problem. Let us all together save and love our beautiful land, our beautiful world," he said.

A Global Warming and Climate Change conference is being organized by the Archdiocese of Manila’s Ecology Desk on Saturday, Sept. 22, and Sunday, Sept. 23, at the College of the Holy Spirit of Manila, Mendiola, Manila.

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