It is true that we are threatened by many things today, from environmental degradation to nuclear war. But the greatest threat to human beings today is humankind itself – which, of course, encompasses every human being who, by their own individual and societal immoral actions brings about unprecedented environmental and total disaster upon the world.
The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation. This linkage can be deduced from scripture, where it is stated that ‘God holds all creation together in himself, all creation is one with the Creator’ (Col.1:17). Consequently, when man rebels against God, nature rebels against man.
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It is common knowledge that the world is heating up and disintegrating, but not just physically. The moral and social temperature and deterioration are also rapidly increasing. The increasing downslide in physical degradation is often preceded by the spiraling rise in moral and social degradation. We could argue that long before environmental disaster, it was moral concerns that produced almost instant, easily seen changes. There was a sudden worldwide explosion and acceptance of pornography, contraception, adultery, homosexual lifestyles, abortion and euthanasia that has led to the prevailing widespread human, social, and environmental degradation of the world.
The immorality spawned by the deviant sexual practices is evidently related to the social degradation we see today. There is a universal plague of drug and human sex trafficking, abortion-on-demand and the right to Euthanasia causing senseless violence and massacres in our homes, schools, and streets and throughout the world. This can also be a rational explanation of the escalation of the stubbornly resistant, and still growing deadly diseases, like AIDS, ever-growing EBOLA, and the more recent ZIKA virus. The correlation between immorality and today’s social, physical and environmental degradation cannot be missed. We all live in a world affected by the ‘Fall’ – an order less than the glory and beauty God intended for each of his creatures, which is of our own making.
Again, countries are vying with each other to acquire nuclear capabilities as a strategic deterrent to be used in a limited warfare. But, in every likelihood, it could easily blow up in a global nuclear holocaust. When one considers the political instability of nations, like N Korea, Iran, and Pakistan, and the other rogue groups like ISIS; their readiness to commit suicide for political purposes and the jingoistic cry for use of nuclear weapons, it is not difficult to understand the certain danger of instant annihilation that mankind tragically faces.
While in natural disasters survivors could start anew, the possibility of a nuclear war could decimate the entire earth and make it unliveable. This demonstrates that it could be an irreparable sanction for our human wrongdoings that strike at the heart of natural law and the fundamental integrity of human beings. It is imperative that these concerns need to be addressed by all people of goodwill.
