PDu30’s reluctance to endorse the Paris agreement on climate change
Such reluctance is understandable. It was today’s industrialized countries that caused the heating of Planet Earth through the emission of greenhouse gases. They are still the biggest producers of such gases as they continue to enrich themselves.
Our obedience to the Paris accord will certainly stymie, if not totally bar, our quest to economically improve through industrialization. The only way, this country can attain progress and at the same time abide by the agreement is for the industrialized countries to bankroll our quest for industrialization in a “green” manner. Other measures such as incentives by “trading” or by converting our low carbon footprint to cash would just not be enough.
At any rate, if PDu30 is really serious about industrialization, the Cordillera is one viable place to start.
Of late, talk of investing mindboggling amounts to beef up our infrastructure are rife. Why not invest a portion of that by creating industries surrounding mining operations of the Cordillera?
For instance, the Lepanto mines that is producing copper can be the reason to put up factories using copper as raw material. As of now, its copper ore output is being exported to Japan to be processed and sold back to us and other countries as finished products with a lot of value added. So why don’t we process it here?
Let us come up with wires, pots and other copper products for industrial and domestic use. No doubt factories for these would cost a lot especially considering the requirement that these should use modern and competitive equipment and technology. If these would be of Jurassic vintage, they would be a laughing stock in the international market.
Another very important project would be factories to develop our steel industry and process its products. Steel is a requirement in all of society’s activities. Without a viable steel industry, a country will always be agricultural— of the stone age variety.
So by all means let us not abide by the Paris accord if we are really serious about industrialization. But if the spending of huge amounts is geared towards infrastructure, which by-and-large means “cement development,” then we would be just perpetuating how this country had been going.
We might as well go by the Paris agreement. **
