Global Warming At The Pier

The effects of global warming are evident even here in my place of work at The Pier.

For the last several years during the peak of the summer season, coal in bulk and log cargoes stored in our terminals have been prone to sudden combustion due to record high temperatures:

This coal is usually of the Indonesian-steam-coal-in-bulk type.

Huge round logs like these are usually imported from the Solomon Islands.

Burning natural fuel like coal releases large amounts of harmful Carbon Dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas into the atmosphere greatly contributing to global warming.

Indiscriminate logging, on the other hand, causes imbalance in the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere since, of course, trees and plants mainly need CO2 for photosynthesis -- no or less trees means more CO2 in the atmosphere (and less oxygen for people), then greenhouse effect, then global warming.

This is such a Catch-22: we need fossil fuels and natural resources to survive and yet consuming or using these resources is slowly killing us.
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This is cross-posted in my other blog, Manila, My Manila.