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Macy Joya, Joshua Co, Gelo Raule, Nicole Tiamson, Mykee Domingo, Marvin Reyes

TREDTWO V27

Sr. Rosette Arroyo

Final Paper

The Exploitation of our Natural Resources

The Philippines is a country rich in natural resources and raw materials. It is admired and sought after for it’s beautiful waters, it’s wealthy mountains, and it’s majestic land. With it’s fertile and abundant forests, it’s exotic coastline, and it’s rich mineral deposits, the Philippines’ wealth grows far more extensive than what anyone can imagine, and has the potential to be harnessed to unimaginable lengths. With all that possibility for wealth, one can only imagine the kind of insatiable greed and exorbitant want this can stir in people, particularly in terms of illegal logging and illegal mining. For the past few decades, our wealthy mountains and majestic lands have been thoroughly abused and misused through this form of greed and misconduct. Mountains have been blown up, forests unrightly cleaned up, and the natives only left with the residue and trash left by these illegal loggers and illegal miners would as a matter of fact have little consideration and compassion for those being hurt and being affected by their constant desperate efforts of obtaining wealth. The government however, has not stood idly by, as they do try to stop these people, but the issue is not being resolved, and it seems that their efforts are far from effective in truly inadvertently stopping these kinds of exploitations to our abundant natural resources. With everyone so caught up in greed and indulgence, we sometimes forget why the Philippines is even blessed these unimaginable gifts, they are a blessing from God, our father. He showered us with these blessings so that we may go and bear fruit with. Yet few people understand his, and even blatantly ignore what is so clearly not ours to abuse and misuse. Clearly something must be done to put a stop to all this corruption and destruction. Our natural resources will...