Earth Day was yesterday.
Today, the rivers are still choking on plastic. The forests are still bleeding under chainsaws. The air still thick with smoke, with silence, with complicity.
We’ve heard the speeches. We’ve seen the corporate greenwashing campaigns. We’ve read the tweets dressed in leaves.
But if we’re honest—none of that stops the bulldozers.
In the Philippines, environmental defenders continue to risk their lives. Small farmers and fisherfolk are still struggling to hold the line against land grabs and extractive industries. The climate is shifting faster than our policies, and people on the margins are paying the highest price.
So what do we do with Earth Day, really?
We carry it into the hard days. Into the slow, unglamorous work of defending land. Into the conversations where we name the systems—colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy—that got us here. Into the stories we pass down, the protests we show up for, the art we make when words fail.
At Filipinos for Nature, we don’t believe in celebrating the Earth once a year. We believe in standing with her. Even when it’s inconvenient. Especially when it’s dangerous.
Because love for the Earth is not passive. It is resistance. It is remembering. It is refusing to normalize destruction.
So let this be the day after Earth Day.
And let us not move on.
Let us move deeper.
Let us get louder.
Let us stay with the Earth—not just in beauty, but in grief, in rage, and in radical hope.
FILIPINOS FOR NATURE 