Sunday, September 13, 2020
Sunday Reflection: Fire
The images from California, Oregon and Washington are awful: smoke filled skies turn day into night, as fire consumes hundreds of thousands of acres.
It is hard to see without thinking "apocalypse." It isn't that, of course, not in the Biblical sense, but it is transformative and terrifying. Experts say that global warming has created events that accelerate one another, as heat waves dry up the land that is then primed for fire, which diminishes the vegetation that cools down the environment in that area.
It is confounding that our nation has chosen this path. We are almost alone among Western industrialized nations in rejecting any kind of serious effort to restrict global warming, and our inaction is used as an excuse by the worst offenders to not address their problems. Just as the global warming events create a causal chain, so do our political issues.
Is this a spiritual issue?
How could it not be? Who do people think created this Earth? How in the world can it be seen as something we consume rather than conserve?
