A tension is revealed between what types of transitions are needed and what is expected of households: there is a strong tendency towards the over-individualization of environmental responsibility, a focus on the consumer over the citizen, and the dissemination of oftentimes moralistic messages – a trend that is not unique to the Philippines. [...] In the following section, we provide research results to address the main question of this paper: given the current energy consumption context in the Philippines, what are the opportunities for environmental 3 Temperatures in Metro Manila range between 30°C and 37°C throughout the year, with higher temperatures relative to surrounding due to the in addition to an urban heat island phenomena. [...] The Philippines is one of the countries that exports the most labour in the world: millions leave the Philippines on an annual basis for work opportunities abroad, and millions more are part of the growing Filipino diaspora. [...] Effective social movements ‘elsewhere’ may also lead to similar movements in the Philippines, as was the case with the environmental movement of the 1970s in the United States and its influence on the Filipino environmental movement. [...] In the Philippines, and perhaps in other similar contexts in Eastern Europe, the opportunity for “triangle of change” collaboration would have to be tempered: if the public sector and energy sector are mistrusted, a greater emphasis could be placed on bolstering the ability for civil society to lobby for change, and indeed discuss the need for fossil-fuel dependent energy reduction both for the co.
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