THESE ARE NOT ACTS OF GOD

Extreme heatwaves. Prolonged droughts. Devastating wildfires. Rising sea levels. Torrential downpours. Catastrophic floods. More violent storms.

Year after year. Season after season. These are no longer isolated or unimaginable events.

They are becoming the new reality, and they are not acts of God. They are, in large measure, acts of man.

For years, scientists around the world warned us about the dangers of climate change. We were told what could happen if we continued to heat the planet, pollute our air and water, and consume its resources without restraint.

But those warnings are no longer warnings.

They are happening now.

Across continents, communities are experiencing unprecedented heat, devastating fires, destructive floods, intensifying storms, disappearing ice, and rising seas.

The consequences of a warming planet are no longer distant predictions for some future generation. They are here, affecting millions of lives today.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), drawing on the work of hundreds of scientists from around the world, has made the conclusion unmistakable: human activity is unequivocally driving global warming.

The atmosphere, the land, and the oceans are warming, and the damage is growing more severe, with some consequences already difficult, and in certain cases impossible, to reverse.

Yet this is not a story without an ending.

The human actions driving climate change must change.

We cannot continue to destroy the very systems that sustain us and then call the consequences acts of God.

The blame does not belong only to governments, corporations, or distant institutions.

It begins with each of us.

And it can end with each of us.

Every choice matters. Every action matters. Every generation matters.

We still have the power to change course, but only if we stop treating climate change as someone else’s problem and start accepting our responsibility as inhabitants of this planet.

This is not a battle against nature. It is a choice about our own behavior.

The question is no longer whether climate change is happening.

The question is: What are we going to do about it?

-Promod Puri
promodpuri.com