Ecotourism is the way to go. I've seen it happen and I've made it happen. In just 2-3 years, you can get people out of poverty with proper planning, marketing, building toilets and infrastructure... Because God already spent over thousands of years to make our country beautiful.
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The problem of our government is that their so stuck in these culture of rules and regulations that they forget what these laws are made for. Our government should commit to principles, to the truth, to the common good.
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I'm not against mining, I'm against the methods and practices of mining here in our country. They plan to do an open pit mining on South Cotabato by digging an open pit covering over 643 hectares (over 7x Ateneo's land mass and bigger than UP Diliman's 493 hectares) and 900 meters deep (twice that of the Empire State Building). That's on top of a fault line. Surrounded by rice fields, seas and marine life! That's crazy. Open pit mining is even illegal in Canada and yet their mining industry is rich.
- Words of Wisdom by Regina "Gina" Lopez, Managing Director of ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc.
Proactive people with "impossible" advocacies never ceases to amaze me. God I'm so inspired. :D