The term 'climate change' has been in use for so long now that it has already lost some of its luster. It has been dissected, rearranged, and turned inside and out. We start discussing the rudiments of climate change as early as grade school, yet there is still copious amounts of work that needs to be done. Constantly updating ourselves about its evolution and impacts is crucial.
The public needs a constant reminder about the relevance and urgency of climate change---adaptation and mitigation. But sometimes in the midst of all its technicalities, we get lost and forget that at the end of it all, human lives are affected and the impact is permanent.
Here comes in the need to try various ways of instigating public awareness of an important issue such as climate change.
For Renato Redentor "Red" Constantino, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities and Manila Bulletin's Business Agenda section editor Regina Abuyuan, story telling is one of those ways. They came up with "Agam", a collection of 26 narratives that describe climate change using photos shot by Jose Enrique Soriano and interweaving them with written pieces based on those very pictures.
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| Photo from ejeepney.org |
Twenty four different writers were given a photo to write about creatively. The outcomes were an array of unique and heartfelt collection of fiction,non-fiction, and poems in various languages such as Sinama, Maguindanao, Bicolano, Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilocano, Waray and English.
Some of the wordsmiths included poet Padmapani L. Perez; Cultural Center of the Philippines Intertextual Division Director Hermie Beltran; Carlos Palanca awardee and distinguished anthropologist Arnold Molina Azurin; former PAGASA Director Leoncio Alhambra Amadore; 2003 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts winner Sheila S. Coronel; and University of the Philippines-Diliman Chancellor Dr. Michael Tan.
The proceeds from the book will go to Re-Charge Tacloban.
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