“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
That's in the lyrics of a Joni Mitchell song that talks about her experiences in Hawaii looking out at a spectacular vista, then looking down into a gray parking lot.
The citizens of Baguio city, once labelled as the city of Pines, have in the past week been up in arms about the plans of mall network SM to do just that - pave over an existing forest and turn it into a parking lot.
This news comes just a month after the devastation in Cagayan de Oro and the multiple floods that have prompted the current administration to declare a total log ban across the country in response to the multiple extreme climatic events that have devastated many parts of the region. Including the city of Baguio, which has experienced flooding, multiple landslides with loses of life, including just recently a trash slide in the city's dumpsite in Irisan.
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