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Why didn’t God warn us about the climate crisis?

שו”תCategory: generalWhy didn’t God warn us about the climate crisis?
asked 8 months ago

According to all studies, the Earth will warm significantly, the water level will rise, and millions will become refugees, even to the point of extinction of the human race.
The Bible makes no mention at all (to the best of my knowledge) of a climate crisis, and religion does not warn us about it, does not tell us to protect the environment, etc. From this I am debating between three options:
1. If God exists and he hasn’t said a word about climate, then there is no climate crisis and all scientists are wrong.
2. If scientists are right and religion does not warn us of dangers to the Earth and the extinction of the human race, then God does not exist.
3. The Earth will be destroyed in exactly 215 years as a result of climate change, as the prophecy of the seventh millennium says. But it is surprising that the prophecy does not specify how the Earth will be destroyed.


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מיכי Staff answered 8 months ago
Fourth option: The Torah does not warn us about future events that are not related to the mitzvot, just as it does not command us to be moral. This must be understood on your own.

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דוד replied 8 months ago

And here the question arises: why is there no mitzvah that says to protect the environment and the earth?

0527633445y replied 8 months ago

See Ecclesiastes 7:13;
“Consider the work of God, for who can repair what He has damaged”: When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the first Adam, He took him and placed him among all the trees of the Garden of Eden, and said to him, “See my works, how beautiful and well-groomed they are, and everything I have created for you, I have created. Be careful not to spoil and destroy my world, for if you spoil, there is no one to repair it after you.

מיכי Staff replied 8 months ago

Why would there be such a mitzvah? Halacha does not deal with this. Such a matter exists, of course, as in the midrash you cited.

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