Green Creation 

With quotes such as "much of civilisation will collapse" many people might like to think (hope?) it is some extremist doommongerers talking. Alas! As mentioned in today's The Independent, the 2009 'State of the Future' report was written and/ or supported by UNESCO, the World Bank, the US army and the Rockefeller Foundation. It runs to 6,700 pages and draws on contributions from 2,700 experts around the globe. For those of us who care about alleviation of poverty (and who would not?), the quote "billions of people will be condemned to poverty" is most worrying indeed. For more information, see the UN's Millennium Project.

In Islam (as in many other faiths), though it is God who created the world, we have been given a free will with a job of being God's guardian (or vice-regent, caretaker). We cannot just sit back and expect God to do our job (even if God could if God wanted to). Also, if we are ungrateful, e.g. by neglecting our duty of looking after God's Creation, God can destroy us and replace us by a more grateful lot (note the information of the people of Ad and Thamud in the Quran who this happened to - the people of Thamud are mentioned 25 times in the Quran, as a warning to us!).

Please God, do a green deed today (and every day). {edit: this is not a supplication to God, but a call to action to us all}