How is Tacloban 10 years after Haiyan?

Ten years after the horrific devastation caused by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), Tacloban City endures, and so do its people.

In photos shared by Greenpeace Philippines, one could see how Tacloban has risen from the rubble 10 years after Yolanda came barreling in. It's easy to say the city has recovered. But recovery is a complicated process.

“While I walked among the rising enterprises, I thought: Will anyone here be able to find their family member’s name etched on any of the walls of remembrance… will any of them ever fully grieve that dead relative?” asked Mark Simbajon, a Yolanda survivor from Tacloban.

As climate change worsens, odds remain stacked against communities like those in Tacloban. 

There are hundreds of other areas are suffering from extreme weather events caused or worsen by climate change. 

But what causes climate change? TL:DR: Greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas.

According toe Greenpeace campaigner Jefferson Chua, “There is still a sense of distance preventing the public from understanding the impact of climate change on communities, and polluters' greenwashing campaigns are widening that gap." 

Not a lot of people realize that as communities like Tacloban bear the burnt of climate change, oil and gas companies continue to profit trillions from their destructive business.

Perhaps these images of Tacloban should remind us that climate is still changing, that Plant Earth is still warming, that governments should be do more, that there are people like the communities of Tacloban who clamor for climate justice they so deserve, and that someone's got to pay.

— LA, GMA Integrated News