Climate change has made weather extremities more intense, frequent and unpredictable, scientists say. While torrential rains lash China, Pakistan and parts of India, sweltering heat has enveloped Japan and South Korea as extreme weather claims hundreds of lives in the region.

This pattern is especially pronounced in Asia, which according to the World Meteorological Organization is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average. The region has lost $2 trillion  to extreme weather – from floods to heatwaves and droughts – over the past three decades, said the 2025 annual Climate Risk Index survey.

And two billion people are at risk due to the ‘unprecedented and largely irreversible’ loss of ice from the Himalayas’ enormous glaciers. The region is a vital source of drinking water for the 16 countries reliant on rivers fed by the glaciers. However, glaciers across the Hindu Kush mountain range are melting at an unprecedented rate, and a new report warns they could lose up to 80% of their volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions are not rapidly reduced. 

Jews, whose Biblical prophets were the ones who first proclaimed a future Messianic Age, recognize that the birth of a Messianic Age must be preceded by its birth-pangs, but Jews emphasize mostly the glories of a world living in peace and prosperity with justice for all. 

Ancient Jewish prophecies did proclaim that there would be an end to the world as we know it, but they did not prophesy that the world will come to an end. 

Rather, the Jewish date cannot be fixed ahead of time because humans have free will and in part, what humans do influences what God decides to do. The pre-Messianic Age marks the beginning of a time of major transition from one World Age into another. 

How we move through this transition, either with resistance or acceptance, will determine  whether the transformation will happen through cataclysmic and violent change or by a steady  ongoing religious reform of human society; which will lead to a world filled with peace, prosperity and spiritual tranquility.

The Messianic Age is usually seen as the solution to all of humanity’s basic problems. This may be true in the long run, but the vast changes the transition to the Messianic Age entails will provide challenges to society for generations to come.

But even when the events are rapid and dramatic, people rarely connect them to their Messianic significance for very long. The amazing rescue of 14,235 Ethiopian Jews in a 1991 airlift to Israel, lasting less than 40 hours, stirred and inspired people for a few weeks. Subsequently, the difficult........

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