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Global Environment

Environmental Protection & Climate Change

Mankind has a moral responsibility and duty to protect the natural, physical and social environment it has inherited through the gracious bounty of the creator. Failure to fulfil our responsibilities, partially or fully, deliberately or through negligence and ignorance, will mean a degradation of the earth’s natural resources to the detriment of man in general. Examples of our negligence include deforestration, habitat loss, consumer waste, pollution, climate change, global warming, genetic modification and poisoned rivers which has instigated broader socio-economic problems for the current and future generations. Environmental negligence causes a greater harm to the poor whose livelihoods are further affected by man's irresponsible actions.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Rich industrialised countries are mainly responsible - it is their excessive carbon emissions that are driving it - but it is poor countries that will suffer most from climate change, for example...

• Diseases will increase - 185 million people in Africa alone could die as a direct result by 2100
• Water supplies for one-sixth of the world’s population are at risk from glaciers vanishing
• Droughts will worsen threatening the food supplies of hundreds of millions of people
• Rising sea levels, erosion and agricultural damage could make between 150 and 200 million people environmental refugees by 2050.
   

…but the poor are the least to blame.

Rich countries are responsible for 80 per cent of the manmade increase in atmospheric CO2. The average UK citizen emits as much CO2 in 2.5 days as the average person in the world’s fifty poorest countries does in a year.

The Quran says:-

• Corruption has spread far and wide over land and sea,
due to the actions of mankind.
Allah is giving them a taste of their own actions
as a means of them finding a way back to him.
 
• Assuredly the creation Of the heavens And the earth
Is a greater (matter) Than the creation of men:
Yet most men understand not.    Quran (40:57)

Although mankind has been endowed with the management of the air, land and sea it does not mean it can abuse it, to destroy it. Consequently, we need to highlight the environmental issues and concerns of the day by requesting individuals, stakeholders, companies and the governments to fulfil their social responsibilities according to their ability and capacity.

 
Is mankind a force for good or evil – this will depend upon the pro-active actions we take today for a better tomorrow. Our actions today are not only affecting future generations but they are leading to problems for the poor in the world today who are ill equipped to deal with global warming and climate change.

Muslims comprise at least one fifth of the human community and they can contribute much to the thinking that is vital to re-evaluate the future direction of the global community and save the planet for all of its people and other life forms.

Take Action

• Pass on the message -  contact your elected representatives, stakeholders, businessmen, family, friends and neighbours asking them to join the global movement to protect the natural physical and social environment which includes adoption of measures to end climate injustice and global warming.

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