The path to sense gratification is paved with insurmountable difficulties.
The incarnate spiritual being wanders the paths of the material universe, which are very difficult for him to traverse, and he must be born and die endlessly. Subjugated by this world under the influence of the three attributes of material nature: virtue, passion, and ignorance, he has only one thing in mind: the three kinds of fruits of action: good, bad, and mixed. He thus clings to pious deeds, the pursuit of wealth, sense gratification, and the monistic theory of liberation, which consists of merging with the Absolute. He toils day and night like a merchant who goes into the forest to exploit the riches he will later resell at a profit. Nevertheless, he cannot truly find happiness in this material world.
It is very easy to understand that the path to sense gratification is paved with insurmountable difficulties. However, one who is not aware of this falls into the cycle of death and rebirth and must successively assume many different bodies, human, animal, plant; material existence thus plunges him into suffering. Perhaps a person now believes he is enjoying life as an American, an Indian, an Englishman, or a German, but in his next life he will have to assume a body belonging to one of the eight million four hundred thousand (8,400,000) species. He will have to immediately accept this new body according to his karma. He will be forced to enter it, and it will be of no use to him to protest. Such are the intransigent laws of nature. Because it is ignorant of its eternal, blissful nature, the separate soul attaches itself to material acts under the spell of maya, the illusory energy akin to Satan. Although it can never know happiness in this world, it nevertheless continues to toil laboriously for this purpose. This is what is called maya, illusion.
Are humans the cause of global warming?
What can be done to stop global warming and stop the cataclysms from happening again?
Yes, humans are indeed the cause of global warming.
Humans alone are responsible for the onset and persistence of global warming, caused by the extraction of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—but also for the periodic emergence of wars, epidemics, and the frequent unleashing of natural elements that surge everywhere without warning and destroy everything, such as extreme heat waves, droughts, heavy and torrential rains, floods, landslides, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, violent winds, volcanic eruptions, large crashing waves, violent storms, intense cold, heavy snow, etc.
God has nothing to do with any of this. Humans themselves are the cause of all these disorders.
Five thousand years ago, the Dark Age began, also known as the Dark Age, the current age of discord, hypocrisy, quarrels, indifference, decadence, and sin.