Christians Don’t Care About Animal Rights or Climate Change — or Do They?

Jakub Ferencik
18 min readJul 19, 2024

Climate change is a concern for future generations, not for today, critics say. But the numbers are pointing to something enitrely different.

One of the most recent reports from The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that even if everyone stops polluting all at once, we’ll still get to 3.2-degree warming.

3.2-degree warming would mean that 100 urban centers would be flooded, including Miami, Dhaka, Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, Montreal, Seattle, London, Baghdad, San Francisco, Sacramento, Houston, Philadelphia, Florida (97%), and 70% of New Jersey.

The trend toward increased flooding is escalating. From 1992 to 1997, 49 billion tons of ice of the Antarctic ice sheet melted annually on average.

From 2012 to 2017, that number increased to 219 billion tons of ice melting annually. Since the 1950s, the Antarctic has lost 13,000 square miles from its ice shelf. Experts suggest that its fate will be determined by the action taken within the next decade.

In fact, 2.4 million American homes and businesses — $1 trillion in value — are expected to experience chronic flooding. Ninety-seven percent of Florida will be off the map by 2100, as calculated by leading ocean chemist, David Archer.

The science on this is irrefutable, experts claim.

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Jakub Ferencik

Journalist in Prague | Author of “Up in the Air,” “Beyond Reason,” & "Surprised by Uncertainty" on AMAZON | MA McGill Uni | 750+ articles with 1+ mil. views