Philippine Natural Resources

July 7th, 2008

According to the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Factbook, the Philippines has plenty of timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, and copper. I will concentrate on the first two.

Timber surplus caused the destruction of several towns in the recent years. I’m defining timber as logged trees. If the forests are bald, then there wouldn’t be anything to resist the strong winds and absorb pouring rain during nature’s annual wrathful visit to the country. We need our rainforests healthy and green. If the rainforests aren’t healthy, flooding, and erosions that causes landslides will always occur during typhoons.

Petroleum is gasoline in it’s pure, unrefined form. Why do we import when we have abundant supply. WORLD POLITICS!!! ‘Nuff said.

Apparently, we have plenty of resources and each social studies class (taught in the Philippines) would tell you that we never use them properly to our own advantage, but to the advantage of foreigners.

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