God is not the culprit of the wildfire that California faces but Satan who tempts the industries to succumb to excessive riches whose domino effects end up in global warming and wildfires as a result

Ecclesiastes 4:7-8 Again I found this vanity under the sun: a solitary man with no companion; with neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and riches do not satisfy his greed. "For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good things?" This also is vanity and a worthless task.

It sounds funny but every time that there IS a calamity that a community/city/country faces, the usual reaction of people especially the Christians is to ascribe the incidence as God’s punishment. 

God is not the culprit of the wildfire that happens in California which death toll rises to 70 people and destroys 5,700 homes, but the community themselves who respond to Satan allurement on riches bringing the world’s industries to exhaust the natural resources resulting to disproportionate emission of carbon dioxide which causes global warming and thereby causes destructive wildfires

According to the reports, California wildfire death toll climbs to 40 amidst a 100-mile wide cluster of raging fire and 100,000 evacuated and 5,700 homes and businesses were destroyed,[1] while more than 200 people have been reported missing since the fires began.[2]

10,000 firefighters were deployed who have made progress combatting the

A firefighting force of more than 10,000 has made progress battling the inferno but strong winds could generate new difficulties.

16 wildfires have burned more than 214,000 acres throughout California, which rapidly spread once any new fires start. This calamity is identified as one of the greatest disaster ever faced by the Californians.

Global warming causes more devastating wildfires

According to a report, global warming may be attributed to increasingly destructive wildfires in the Western United States.[3]

Scientists discover that lengthier and ferocious wildfire seasons since 1986 are closely linked with warmer summer temperatures, the earlier arrival of spring, and earlier snowmelts in the West.

With the multi, million dollar that huge industries (which emit excessive carbon dioxide resulting to global warming) have been reaping, aside from properties  damage that the wildfires have wreaked , it cost states and the federal government millions in fire-suppression management which have exceeded $1 billion dollars at least twice since Fiscal Year 2000.[4]

Nature’s reminder   

St. Gregory the Great identifies avarice as one of the capital sins (along with pride, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia) – Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 1866 – as they engender other sins, other vices.  Because of unwarranted desire for so much money, industries are tempted to deplete the natural resources uncontrollably which strengthens global warming and thus cause wildfires.

The global temperature is intensifying and the climate is changing brought by the greenhouse-gas emissions that the earth’s industries have already produced, resulting to a likely increase in wildfires occurrence.

Again, the nature’s speaks to the people to engage in moderation efforts by taking steps on reducing our impact on the climate than greed, along with creating buffer zones between human habitation and prone forests, and meeting home and city fire-safety standards.

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References:

[1] Associated Press in Sonoma City, California, Sunday 15 October 2017 05.49 BST, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/13/california-wildfires-crews-progress

[2] Nicole Chavez, Ray Sanchez and Jason Hanna, CNN, California fires: New evacuations ordered for Santa Rosa, Updated 0103 GMT (0903 HKT) October 15, 2017, http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/14/us/california-fires-updates/index.html

[3] Naila Moreira, Globe Correspondent , Study links increase in wildfires to global warming, July 7, 2006, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4427

[4] Union of Concerned Scientists, Is Global Warming Fueling Increased Wildfire Risks?, http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/global-warming-and-wildfire.html#.WePvS3bMcng