Climate Justice - an Excellent Idea but Hard to Achieve (Part 1)

As elections in the Philippines draws closer, many candidates are now busy presenting their respective platform to the voting populace. I said "many" because not all politicians or would-be politicians are presenting their platforms. Sometimes their "platforms" are not even platforms at all but merely "dreams" about a better nation.

While I was sitting around in our ancestral house located in the Paliparan suburb of Marikina City, supporters of a candidate for city councilor handed out flyers listing his platforms. This candidate, a local celebrity named Arvin "Tado" Jimenez, is a member of the Sanlakas (lit. "One strength") progressive political bloc and of the Partido Lakas ng Masa (Filipino for "Party of the Laboring Masses"). Here are some of their platforms:

"The party aims to mobilize and lead the masses in their protest against the capitalist system and present the socialist solution against it. It campaigns for immediate economic and political reforms including the:

• Nationalization of the basic industries and services (electricity, oil and water)

• Provision of basic needs of the masses (land, decent housing, education, jobs, and health)

• Establishment of a genuine government of the masses"

Its candidates can also add some of their agendas as long as it doesn't run contrary to the general platform of the party, or at least, that's how I assume it after reading Tado's platform regarding "Climate Justice". This platform aims to extract justice, climate justice, against those who contributed to the disastrous Climate Change. It seeks to attain justice for the victims of Climate Change.

TO BE CONTINUED...