Flooding and heavy rains hit Central America and Mexico

Prior to the tragedy of the earthquake in south Asia
heavy rains and flooding ravaged in southern Mexico
and Central America. Landslides have occured in
various locations and towns are being declared as
mass graves for the dead. Over the weekend, when I
asked those from the World Gathering to pray and
hold in the Light those in south Asia (where we
have a few Quaker brothers and sisters), I also
asked them to pray for and hold in the Light those
victims in southern Mexico, and Central America,
where we have even more Quaker brothers and sisters
from the World Gathering. What saddens me is that in
many cases, whole families have been wiped out, all
dead as a result of the flooding and rains. There
are many families also still in existance that only
contain a few members now. On Sat. 8th October I
read a news article on the internet about one man
who buried his whole family. Yesterday (Tues. 11th Oct.),
I received an email asking what we thought about these
tragedies and whether we believe that they are acts of
God and some sort of punishment against humankind for
something. I replied back to her that I believed there are
both scientific and religious reasons to what caused these
said atrocities. The scientific piece involves excessive
stress on the environment, the air and the world as a whole,
excessive and prolonged air, water and land pollution, and
abuse of the environment (which was not included in my email).
It's like if you over pressurize a bottle of water,
eventually it will explode.
The religious reason that I came to the conclusion of is that
God doesn't like what's going on in the world: wars, global
warming, etc. so he decided to punish some of humankind. On
the other hand, I don't think that when he does this sort of
thing, he targets specific areas or populations of people.