Urgent Environmental and Political Crises: The piece highlights escalating climate risks (extreme heat, drought, rising CO₂ emissions), large-scale evacuations in Europe, and a global democratic decline in which more people now live under authoritarian rule than in liberal democracies.

Interfaith Eschatological Perspective: Drawing on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, the author frames current upheavals (wars, climate change, social disruption) as possible “birth pangs” of a Messianic Age involving figures such as the Messiah, Mahdi, and the return of Jesus, emphasizing human free will and moral responsibility in shaping the transition.

Call for Practical Peace and Stewardship: The essay urges fulfillment of religious duties of environmental guardianship (stewardship/khalifah) and advocates a two-state Israeli-Palestinian partnership of peaceful coexistence as a concrete step toward the prophetic vision of nations turning swords into plowshares.

More than 130,000 people are evacuated across Spain and France, according to each country’s latest (July 24) figures.

Both Judaism and Islam teach their followers to take care of the earth. Muslims and Jews also believe that humans should act as guardians and trustees (stewardship and khalifah) off our planet, and that they will be held accountable by God for their actions.

More than 90% of the world’s population is projected to face increased risks from the compound impacts of extreme heat and drought, potentially widening social inequalities as well as undermining the natural world’s ability to reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere—according to a study from Oxford’s School of Geography. And communities around the world emitted more carbon dioxide in 2022 than in any other year on records dating to 1900, a result of air travel rebounding from the pandemic and more cities turning to coal as a low-cost source of power.

Warming is projected to intensify these hazards ten-fold globally under the highest emission pathway, says the report, published in Nature Sustainability. In the wake of record temperatures in 2022, from London to Shanghai, continuing rising temperatures are projected around the world. For example, warming in the Arctic, leads to melting sea ice, which results in further warming because sea water absorbs rather than reflects solar radiation.

If humans will not reduce man made carbon magnification, not even the coming of Mahdi and Messiah may be able to overcome human unwillingness to reverse human pollution. God demands that humans fulfill their God given responsibilities. The incidence of adult diabetes in the United States has doubled over the last 20 years, afflicting 37.3 million people, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And for the first time in two decades, there are now more closed autocracies than liberal democracies in the world according to the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem Institute) at the University of Gothenburg. The........

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