THIS week is Global Climate Change Consciousness Week. I cannot attend tomorrow's Ortigas forum for an interfaith panel, but I lend my voice through writing and a PPCRV video for high school students' classroom material.

Since college, I have committed to a minimalist lifestyle of not buying many physical goods when I can reuse them. This attitude was further resolved when I lived in Marawi for law school because Lake Lanao, the country's largest freshwater lake, was just in front of me and in danger of waste pollution from lakeshore residents. Climate change is real. We live in the supposed Baguio of the South without the need for a fan or air conditioning. But now, Marawi residences have fans. The Muslim Action against Climate Change Action (Macca) also warned us of the same thing.