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Globally Yours, William Dar Today Danumán, tomorrow the world!? Today, the drylands. It’s the water. There is pleasant irony in the fact that William Dollente Dar comes from a village called Danumán West in the lowlands of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, Philippines while he was ensconced as the Chair of the Committee on Science & Technology (CST) starting at the September 3-14 meeting of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), with 191 countries having signed the Convention – a very high honor. Danumán indicates, from danúm ( water in Ilocano, his native tongue) a waterlogged or watery place while desertification suggests all sand and hardly a drop of moisture . Extremes. Givens that he learned to accept and work from there. Where he is now, Dar is high and dry, safe above the water, although with a new, top-level responsibility. He is quietly happy for this added window of service to peoples in Africa, Asia, Latin America. It shows in his face. He is quite hap

PRIMATE, I GO APE! IF YOU ARE HOMO SAPIENS, THE THINKING SPECIES THAT I THINK YOU ARE, BEFORE YOU FINISH READING THIS, YOU WILL TOO. In my primate mind’s eye, right in the forefront of country-to-country efforts to mitigate Global Warming, I envision Blogal Warming, a rise by 2 degrees Celsius in the body temperature of primate bloggers all over the world to the level of passion in their advocacy for A Greener World, greener & cleaner. Personally, only last month, I found that a damn good reason to write more ardently, not the least to blog more arduously, to fever-pitch. Normally, before this, I had been held prisoner by other primal interests. Primates of the world, unite: You have nothing to lose but your chains! Consider this Frank Hilario’s Blogal Warning, a 3-decades-delayed response to Al Gore’s Global Warning: We need to change perspective about Climate Change. Houston, we have a problem. The Global Village is fact in that the electric impulse connects us all

THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH, ITS ORIGIN IS WESTERN. Al Gore’s film, Our Film, directed by David Guggenheim, has just won the Oscar for ‘Best Documentary’ as I revise this 26 February 2007, at high noon Manila time. An inconvenient truth is that it is high time we revise everything we have on our hands that has anything to do with polluting the physical environment, not to mention polluting the psychological, spiritual, political, economic environments, not necessarily in that order. The Inconvenient Truth  as documentary also won the Oscar for ‘Best Original Song’ with the one written by Melissa Etheridge, ‘I Need To Wake Up.’ We need to wake up to the reality that we have to have faith in whom we can’t see, such as God and gravity, and to believe in the things we can’t touch, such as the ozone layer above our heads and the bottom of the iceberg beneath our feet. A crewman said of the Titanic: ‘God himself could not sink this ship’ ( National Geographic  quoted in NextTag.com/)