Ningas Kugon

I am planning to investigate who planted the trees along one of the main road here in Pampanga so that I can write an article about him/her as a way of saying thank you for helping the environment. Due to busy schedules, a month passed by but I wasn’t able to check it out. Unfortunately during the lull I found out that it is only a one day project.

No one is watering the plant and they let the grass grow around the trees. So when there is a grassfire, the trees that were planted were also burned. The only remnants that I can see now is the dried trunk of the trees, there still some few trees that survived but I was wondering if the remaining trees can still survive the long drought. According to the government weather agency, there will be a long drought due to the El Nino phenomena.

It seems that this is another testament to ningas kugon attitude of most Filipinos. Ningas Kugon refers to the Filipino attitude of only good at first; they will start a project or work but will not finish it. This maybe the reason why after a known personality claimed that they planted trees, he/she will no longer update us on what happened to the trees that they planted. This also answer my question why after so many politician, government or non government organization claimed that they planted trees our forest still dwindling and trees in the countryside are decreasing. It is sad that the environment became an unhappy victim of the Filipino ningas kugon.

If we really want to resolve the problem with global warming our ningas kugon attitude should be removed and address proper urban and regional planning in our environmental endeavor until to the end. Until we have that attitude any good environment project that we will start will all be wasted.