FAITH AND GUIDANCE

Global warming is actually an announcement of the death of the philosophy of Humanism. In this philosophy, man was believed to occupy the central position in the whole universe. If man truly had this exalted status in the universe, he should put an end to the impending destruction of the world’s life-support system. philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre who died in 1946. Existentialism is in essence a philosophic edition of Humanism. Humanism is a non-religious philosophy that has no place for God. It is a philosophical outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human, rather than to divine or supernatural matters. Many modern-day philosophers became proponents of the ideology of Humanism: for example, the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (d. 1872), who claimed that ‘God is nothing other than man himself’. Another such thinker was the American philosopher William James (d. 1910). English philosopher Julian Huxley (d. 1975) has written a book in support of Humanism, titled Religion Without Revelation. In this book, Humanism has been described as the ‘transfer of seat from God to man’. A general introduction to Humanism can be understood from the book, Humanism: A Very Short Introduction, by Stephen Law, 2011. Humanism gained widespread popularity in the second half of the 20th century. People believed they now had an alternative to divinity. Non-religious advocates of Humanism declared ‘man to be the measure of all things’. However, at this very same time another powerful phenomenon emerged that effectively demonstrated that the concept of Humanism was a failure. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as ‘Global Warming’. Global temperatures began rising at an alarming speed, posing a grave threat to the very possibility of human life on Earth. Global warming began to throw life in the world into complete chaos. Global warming is the heating of Earth’s climate system to levels that have become harmful to life on Earth. Technological developments in the modern world led to rapid industrialization. These factories of the world that run by the burning of fossil fuels, pump harmful gases into the atmosphere known as carbon emissions. The Earth’s atmosphere is now dangerously polluted with these carbon emissions.