Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2025
Abstract
Super Typhoon Rai, locally called Odette, hit the Philippines on December 16, 2021, devastating General Luna, a municipality in Surigao del Norte. Due to this natural disaster, this study—originally written as a pre-pandemic autoethnographic account via flâneuserie—endeavors to understand how the mobility of city dwellers contributes to the anthropogenic climate by exploring the ethics of care. Additionally, it seeks to posit inquiries on what it means to be climate-resilient in an archipelagic country such as the Philippines. Beyond economic methodologies, it is pivotal to examine issues of care that deal with our relationship with nature by understanding how, for example, mindful tourism is practiced in a community that experienced a tragic typhoon such as Typhoon Rai. Surely, the climate crisis’ temporal aspects make it more arduous to address, however, producing more philosophically-informed studies with ethics of care in a certain locus brings us closer to the possibility of a more empathetic and caring community. Like the sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, that descends at night and blooms at dawn, the city, after grieving, looks forward to a rebirth by way of recognizing our moral responsibility and by employing approaches that are geared towards actual and real-life solutions.
Recommended Citation
Borras, M. F. (2025). The Lotus at Dawn: Rethinking climate resilience in an archipelago. Kritike an Online Journal of Philosophy, 18(3), 59–68. https://doi.org/10.25138/18.3.a3
