With climate change-induced sea level rise, seawater is already invading some islands in the Visayas, while seawater intrusion is a looming threat to Metro Manila, home to 13 million people.
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“Human influence was very likely the driver of these increases,” said the report, pointing to greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels among the main culprits. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in August this year that the average global rate of sea level rise increased from 1.9 millimeters per year between 19, to 3.7mm between 20. Scientists say sea levels rise as the warming climate melts the polar ice caps and the higher temperatures expand the oceans. Like the rest of the country, Madrano and her family have seen the fury of typhoons, which are expected to be more intense and frequent in the rapidly warming world.īut the rising sea that comes with global warming is almost an imperceptible, silent and creeping danger for the Philippines, an archipelago of 110 million people, more than half of whom live in coastal areas like them. Jocel Madrano, a young mother living on a stilt house over Manila Bay She knows that when the weather clears, her husband will have to reassemble remnants of their shack in a seemingly perpetual cycle of rebuilding against the odds. She knows when to flee with her children to the safety of a basketball court across the road whenever strong typhoons and storm surges come. She knows it from experience, as a kid growing up beside the murky Estero de Vitas, one of the winding estuaries in Manila choking with garbage, and in the 12 years she has lived by the seawall. Having lived all her life close to the water, Madrano knows it is dangerous for her children to have the sea right below the shanty’s rickety floorboards.
With stronger storms lashing their homes and the sea slowly rising, Madrano’s family and thousands of vulnerable communities along and near Metro Manila’s coasts may soon have to choose between either staying but risking the hunger of the sea, or leaving with no certainty or livelihood elsewhere.Ībout 100 other families live in this ramshackle community on stilts literally on the edge of the seawall, almost out of sight from Radial Road 10, a major road running through Vitas, Tondo in the capital Manila. PHOTO BY AC DIMATATACīut soon that difficult decision would have to be made.
Despite their precarious living conditions, life goes on in this small community of around 100 families in Tondo, in the capital Manila. Jocel Madrano, 23, lives with her husband and four children in a shack built over Manila Bay, supported by wooden stilts.
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