The detritus that Ondoy’s flood left show the sins that we have been committing on nature: mud and garbage.

The garbage was the doing of the common people themselves. These were thrown into the waterways because that was the easiest and quickest way to get rid of them. But nature always fights back. Because the trash clogged the waterways, made them shallow and narrow, waterways overflowed their banks and entered the homes, yards, streets and exclusive villages of the people the garbage came from. The saying that the trash you throw into streams will come back to haunt you has been proven true.