The Shocking History Behind Philippine Floods

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Why does the Philippines keep drowning despite billions spent on flood control? 🌊 Historian Kirby Araullo explores the history of corruption, lost indigenous wisdom, and the trillion peso corruption scandal. Related Videos: 🌞 Precolonial & Early Philippine History https://bit.ly/EarlyPhilippines 🌏 Modern History of Southeast Asia Playlist: https://bit.ly/ModernSEA 🔥 ‘Discovery’ & Conquest of the Philippines: https://bit.ly/DiscoveringPH 🎥 Join my channel! — https://youtube.com/kirbyaraullo/join 🔔 Subscribe — http://goo.gl/yDgQmK 🍿 Be my Patron — https://www.patreon.com/kirbynoodle 📚 Books, merch, etc. — https://www.kirbyaraullo.com/books 🔍 Featured Topics: 00:00 Billions Stolen? Flood Corruption in the Philippines 00:29 Why the Philippines Keeps Flooding 00:55 The Flood-Proof Ifugao and the Muyong System 02:07 Precolonial Architecture: How Ancestors Survived Floods 03:52 Kapampangan Flood Myths and Apung Galura 05:13 Spanish Colonizers Ignored Local Flood Warnings 06:48 Lost Indigenous Flood System in Pampanga & Manila Bay 09:12 Colonial Urban Planning Disaster in Manila 10:35 When Flood Wisdom Was Made Illegal 11:57 The Corruption Blueprint: From Encomienda to Haciendas 14:03 American-Era Flood Control Failures 15:44 Post-Independence Choices: Modern Engineering vs. Tradition 17:43 The ₱380 Billion Flood Control Scandal 19:43 Apung Galura’s Warning: Corruption Meets Climate Change 21:20 The Path Forward: Indigenous Wisdom + Accountability 📺 About This Video: The Philippines faces devastating floods year after year, but why do these disasters keep happening despite billions of pesos spent on flood control projects? In this in-depth documentary, historian Kirby Araullo explores the forgotten history of floods, corruption, and indigenous wisdom in the Philippines. From the Ifugao’s flood-proof Muyong forest system to the Kapampangan belief in Apung Galura, from Spanish colonial arrogance that ignored local knowledge to American-era land policies that destroyed natural flood defenses, this story shows how the P