A recent news item reported that the famous Boracay Island is near the brink of destruction due to over development by a lot of greedy resort owners. Once again, Mother nature is being raped and exploited by over commercialization and materialism of the human race. Yup, the once pristine and unspoiled paradise island may end up as a huge sewage island if authorities don't act fast enough. The problem is this, the usual standard operating procedure of our Government is, "Act when it's already too late".
The over commercialization is slowly destroying the whole island and its surrounding marine environment. Improperly built sewage system is causing pollution and the utter disregard in preserving the natural environment is damaging the island. Boracay is simply being over improved to its limits that it's beginning to to result in its devastation. The Government has formed a Multi-Agency Task Force to strictly implement existing laws to prevent its obliteration but I have doubts if it's going to save the island in time.
In the Philippines money makes every wrongdoing become right and justified. No matter what Multi-Agency Task Force crap they form, chances are thy won't be able to stop or prevent the big resorts from destroying the area. If the Government had implemented the already existing laws in the first place, these problems would have never happened. I guess numerous Government personnel got bribed by the rich resort owners so every rule and regulations got flushed down the toilet.
If the Government doesn't do anything now to resolve these environmental issues then we can kiss Boracay Island goodbye very soon. Future generations can only enjoy Boracay by watching old pictures and videos from the past. Mother Nature can take a lot of abuse and punishment but she can only soak up so much. We have to do something decisive right now to save Boracay from sure obliteration....
The over commercialization is slowly destroying the whole island and its surrounding marine environment. Improperly built sewage system is causing pollution and the utter disregard in preserving the natural environment is damaging the island. Boracay is simply being over improved to its limits that it's beginning to to result in its devastation. The Government has formed a Multi-Agency Task Force to strictly implement existing laws to prevent its obliteration but I have doubts if it's going to save the island in time.
In the Philippines money makes every wrongdoing become right and justified. No matter what Multi-Agency Task Force crap they form, chances are thy won't be able to stop or prevent the big resorts from destroying the area. If the Government had implemented the already existing laws in the first place, these problems would have never happened. I guess numerous Government personnel got bribed by the rich resort owners so every rule and regulations got flushed down the toilet.
If the Government doesn't do anything now to resolve these environmental issues then we can kiss Boracay Island goodbye very soon. Future generations can only enjoy Boracay by watching old pictures and videos from the past. Mother Nature can take a lot of abuse and punishment but she can only soak up so much. We have to do something decisive right now to save Boracay from sure obliteration....
Unfortunatly the destruction of Boracay is far more too advance to avoid it already. Few years and everything will be over, will remain maybe a new type of Baracy-Angeles. The sea water appears so poluted (colliforms density ?) that it looks almost prohibited to make any legal water analysis ? In many country around the world the so called "White beach" will be prohibited to public !
ReplyDeleteWell, that's too bad. If Boracay now is in really bad shape then Puerto Galera is in worse shape. I guess we have to thank our leaders who are focused only on making big bucks.
ReplyDeleteAs I've already written many times in my blogs in the past, the Filipino Politician is only interested in bleeding this country and its citizens dry.
They don't give a shit if the Philippines becomes a 7,100 islands of dump sites as long as the money keeps on flowing to their pockets.
Why? Because they can easily migrate to other countries which are still safe and clean to live on. With all that billions of pesos in their bank accounts they can reside anywhere they want in the world.
While the poor Filipinos will be left here to swim in the filth that they have left and created....Thanks for your comment.
Boracay is already a wasteland. I was there in the 1980s and in the early 90s and it saw how a once beautiful island has been destroyed by greedy developers and officials. How I wish people could see what Boracay looked like back then, when it was a sleepy fishing village and you could walk to the end of the beach without seeing anyone. It was serene, quiet and spectacularly beautiful. Now it's a dump, a huge, over-developed, noisy, ugly dump.
ReplyDeleteYes, everything in this world is being destroyed by greedy and selfish people or companies. Unless we do something about it then everything will end up destroyed.
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