Philippines's enviromental problems

The Philippines which a Japanese researcher of environmental law saw

 

 Now I have studied abroad in manila(a capital of Philippines). I spend a plain life in the city without hindrance. But I have many topics that I should write a journal about urban environmental problems in this city. because I major environmental law.

In comparison with Japan called ‘an environmental advanced nation’ in general, I can not help but say that the urban environment is so bad. They always have traffic jams from morning to night in main streets. And these massive amounts of exhaust gas are always released every day. In addition that, many city’s rivers runs thick, a lots of wastes float up in rivers, there are bad smells even if you are away from a riverside. Furthermore, cityscapes are also bad because many garbage are in streets, it is hygienically bad. That is to say, ‘Manila has both Air pollution, Water pollution, and the issue of waste ’.

Well, what is the main reason of these environmental problems? I will focus on the Air pollution in this journal. At first, I think that this problem is caused by undeveloped railway network. In fact, they have a few railways, and don’t have subways although the population of Metro manila is over 20000000people. Therefore, Manila cannot help being an automobile society, and it closely tied chronic traffic jam, emitting a large amount of exhaust gas. Moreover, a lot of cars which is running in the city are almost of old-model cars. In addition that, many Shared taxi called Jeepney are running everywhere in this country, these jeepneys are running with emitting black smoke.

So, how should Philippines government solve this Air pollution? I think that the government has to grapple with three projects at least. First, the government has to change an automobile society to a railroad society to extend railways. Second, they should establish subsidy system of buying eco-car. Third, they should abolish jeepney and create jobs for jeepney drivers. If they grapple with these projects, they can decrease Air pollution because the root cause will be cut off. I also think that if they don’t do that, this problem cannot be solved forever.