God said he'd never flood the world again, but He didn't mention anything else

Personally, I don’t go so far to say that God punishes us for sinful action; it’s my opinion that He has much greater concerns. This is not the case for many, including this blog article that calls those of the faith to hug a tree to save humanity from His wrath.


By invoking the story of Noah in Genesis, religious environmentalists have support for the idea that if we continue to act this way, God will punish us again.

It seems that a Great Flood (or Deluge) was historically likely, or at least there are versions of it in almost every ancient mythology. I wonder if it’s not necessarily God punishing us, but more the earth being unable to handle what we’re doing to it.

I’m of the opinion that we’re incapable of destroying the earth. Unless we completely obliterate it (which, if I’m not mistaken, we don't have the ability to make matter disappear, but only to disperse it), it will exist after we die. So, to talk about killing the earth is a bit misguided; when we talk about the “end of the world,” we’re talking about the end of human existence. In that mode, global warming, in the example here, isn’t killing the earth, it’s killing us. The earth will adapt to it, most likely by refusing to support how we live.

That said, it makes me think we might just die from a drought rather than from a flood. Either way, if we’re destroying our environment we're fucking ourselves, and that’s the moral of the flood myth. Whatever you might call a sin, I think the point is clear.