Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among
you come from? Is it not from your passions 2 that make war within your
members? You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain;
you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask. You ask but
do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with
God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy
of God (James 4:1-4)
Sacred Scripture calls Christians to care for God's creation and all of God's children. If God saw all that He had made and found it "very good" (Genesis 1:31) then it is humanity’s responsibility to preserve its goodness than break it.
God calls everybody as His stewards to care for the
garden He created, the earth that is. Side by side with the Biblical stories,
Psalms and parables, and the beauty of the natural world, everybody can come to
know God more fully.
Concern for the environment calls everyone to
respect human life and dignity. Taking care of the environment requires a
special responsibility to the poor and vulnerable, who are most affected and
least heard.
As stewards on renewing the Earth, everyone should
seek to explore the links between concern for the person and for the earth,
between natural ecology and social ecology, for the common good. Hence, the web
of life is one.
The desire for the common good also requires a
concern for not only the people of today but also for future generations.
Global climate change (which has been pointed as
cause of more flooding, aside from Heat waves, droughts, and storms) poses one
of the greatest dangers to the most defenseless among us. Because of
impoverishment, age, health, and location, the poor are particularly vulnerable
to the potential negative impacts of global climate change as they often do not
have the economic and technological resources to either adapt to or protect
against the expected impacts of climate change.
God designed the bounty of the earth to be shared
among all of His children, fairly and rightly.
It is not fairly and rightly that the poor who have lesser greenhouse
gas emissions, suffers greatly than the developed countries who have been accumulating an enormous discharges.
Therefore to embrace every country’s role as
stewards of God's creation, everybody must employ "restraint and
moderation in the use of material goods, so as not to allow each desire to possess
more material things to go beyond our concern for the basic needs of the
community and the environment.
Climate change happens because of greed. Greed is the disordered love of riches, which
is also one of the Seven Deadly Sins (like pride, lust, gluttony, sloth, anger,
and envy) as it gives rise to other sins. As Bhishma (one of the central pillars in the
ancient Indian epic Mahabharata) said:"Hear, O King, what the foundation is of
sin. Covetousness alone is a great destroyer of merit and goodness. From
covetousness proceeds sin. It is from this source that sin and irreligiousness
flow, together with great misery. This covetousness is the spring also of all
the cunning and hypocrisy in the world. It is covetousness that makes men
sin."
What causes heavy rains?
There are three several ways of turning moist air
into cloud,[1]
so that it rains.
Rain – (and other forms of precipitation) occurs
when warm moist air cools and condensation happens.
Given that warm air can hold
more water than cool air, once the warmer air is cooled the moisture condenses
to liquid, thus it rains.
No single factor is associated
absolutely with heavy rainfall[2].
Warmer temperatures and increased moisture in the atmosphere seemed to link
more with denser precipitation incidents than with weaker ones. Although the
strongest precipitation incidents also occur when the atmosphere is less stable
than it usually is during weaker occasions, an unstable atmosphere itself does
not always indicate heavy rainfall.
Scientific principle claims that warmer air holds
more water vapor.[3]
As a matter of fact, the amount of moisture that can be held in air grows very quickly
as temperatures increase. Hence, in general, air will get moister as the Earth
warms – provided there is a moisture source. This may cause more intense
rainfalls and snow events, which lead to increased risk of flooding.
Nevertheless, warmer air can
also more speedily evaporate water from surfaces; areas where it’s not
precipitating dry out more rapidly. As a matter of fact, it’s probable that
some regions experience both more drought and more flooding in the future (not simultaneously).
The dry spells are longer and with quicker evaporation causing dryness in soils.
However, when the rains fall, they come in heavy downpours which potentially cause
more floods.
CONCLUSION
To wrap it up, since the world is warming brought
by humans’ emitting heat-trapping greenhouse gases which warm the planet, which
thereby result heavy rains, then regulating the cause like normalizing of heat-trapping
emissions from burning coal, gas and oil in power plants and cars, controlling
the cutting down and burning of forests, to name a few, would be significant to conserve the earth's stability.
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[3]
John Abraham, Global warming
is increasing rainfall rates,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/22/global-warming-is-increasing-rainfall-rates
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