Editing Passover (section)

== Environmental links ==
Some see in Passover an important ecological lesson important to the contemporary situation with different ecological threats like [[climate change]]. For example, Rabbi [[Yonatan Neril]], founder and executive director of the [[Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development]], compares the impact of climate change to the [[Plagues of Egypt]] and the refusal of modern society to change its way of thinking to the refusal of the [[Pharaoh]] to free the Jewish slaves.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Döhler |first1=Dominik |title=What Passover teaches us about the environmental crisis |url=https://www.zavit.org.il/intl/en/uncategorized/what-passover-teaches-us-about-the-environmental-crisis/ |website=Zavit Science&Environment in Israel |access-date=April 5, 2023}}</ref> Scientists discovered evidence for climatic change at the end of the rule of [[Ramesses II]], which could potentially impact the flow of the Nile, leading to [[Algal bloom|red algae bloom]].  This could explain what is described as the ten plagues. According to Neril: "The Egyptians were very happy to have a free source of labor in the form of Israelite slaves. When God said this needs to stop, they were reluctant to change…Fossil fuels, in the past 150 years, have replaced slave labor as the key driver of human society. There's a Pharaoh within us that wants to continue to do something that's not right."<ref>{{cite news |last1=B. Waxman  |first1=Olivia  |title=Did the 10 Plagues of Egypt Really Happen? Here Are 3 Theories |url=https://time.com/5561441/passover-10-plagues-real-history/ |access-date=April 5, 2023 |agency=Times |date=April 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=N. Ehrenkranz |first1=Joel |last2=A. Sampson |first2=Deborah |title=Origin of the Old Testament Plagues: Explications and Implications |journal=Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine |date=July 2008 |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=31–42 |pmid=18604309 |pmc=2442724 }}</ref>