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On Saturday, November 1, 1755, All Saint’s Day, a massive earthquake hit Portugal: tens of thousands of people were killed, most buildings (including all churches) were destroyed, half of Portugal’s GNP was wiped out. Tsunami waves reached Brazil. This was the one of the largest earth-quakes in recorded history.<\/p>\n

It had a decisive influence on philosophical and religious thought. Some call it: the first modern natural disaster. Why? Previously, natural disasters were considered acts of God. Rain was a reward for good deeds, and droughts (or floods or earth quakes), curses or punishment for our sins. As in Deuteronomy 11: ” If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day\u2026I will grant the rain for your land in season \u2026 “<\/p>\n

The cracks that opened up as a result of the earthquake were not only in the streets of Lisbon. The religious belief that tied human activity to God’s judgment through the natural world cracked as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pioneers in geology were increasingly able to show that indeed these are natural events that can be analyzed and eventually understood. For the explanation of this earthquake (and natural disasters in general), we best turn to geology, not theology.<\/p>\n

This was a turning point in history: the disconnect between human morality and Nature, that runs according to its own rules. Physics does not depend on metaphysics. According to this new modern approach, texts like Deuteronomy are just silly superstitions. Rain falls on the righteous and the wicked, and if it does not fall at all, it is because of the hydrological cycle, not human sin.<\/p>\n

Today, the climate crisis (global heating, droughts, floods, fires, etc.) is a “natural disaster” that is deeply and doubly tied to human behavior. First, in society’s resilience: Poor people living in poor living conditions are more exposed to risks from natural disasters than wealthy people. The destructiveness of any “natural event” is a result of the structure of human society.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the boundary between natural and human is no longer clear-cut. That modern duality has been replaced by a more unified, post-modern <\/em>view: humans and nature are part of a single, interconnected system. We have changed the structure of the world with our own hands, and it is coming back to us as a boomerang.<\/p>\n

We are not returning to the pre-modern view of the Creator who punishes sinners. We are in a postmodern era, which needs to understand that our society, based on fossil fuels, wasteful consumerist lifestyles, and exploitation that creates horrific inequalities, all produce destruction of the natural world, including the carbon balance of the atmosphere, which is a disaster for us, human society.<\/p>\n

After the last “natural” disaster that threatened to destroy the world – the Flood – God promised: “Never again will I doom the earth because of man\u2026 Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Summer and winter, Day and night Shall not cease” (Gen. 8:21-22).<\/p>\n

God did not break His promise. It is we who have become like God, with the ability to create and destroy. We need to wake up to these capabilities, and work together to choose life.<\/p>\n

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