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Sizzling summer, global warming


            SUMMER in the Philippines means three things at least: vacation and a break from school and routine, very warm weather, and combustible behavior.
             Let us take the third thing first. "More than elsewhere, judges (among other people) ought to consider that in the Philippines climate produces effects on passions. A state of anemia, due to the heat, produces an unbalanced condition, which is manifested by nervous irritability. The amok, or momentary obfuscation, is a phenomenon observed among the Malay race, sometimes provoked by hunger, heat, etc. Add to this what various Filipinos who have protested there observe: The Indio, the personification of suffering, will only kill when all his patience has been exhausted and nothing remains to him but despair." ["Let Us Be Just," La Solidaridad, April 15, 1890].
             That was the professional opinion, it seems, of a physician who was based in Spain at the time and who had been writing about the bane of colonialism and the need for reforms. Dr. Jose Rizal had the bright idea of linking climactic and socio-political conditions. In another essay for the same newsmagazine, he connected a raging issue with a human inclination. He confessed that the habitual idleness that existed among Filipinos was a disastrous predisposition. Why?.
             "The warm climate requires quiet and rest for the individual, just as cold incites him to work and to action.The fact is that in the tropical countries severe work is not a good thing as in cold countries, for there it is annihilation, it is death, it is destruction. Nature, as a just mother knowing this, has therefore made the land more fertile, more productive as a compensation.".
             It induces even the white man and the other humans from the temperate climes to abandon work while in the Philippines.


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