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by dane-pgp 1489 days ago
It may seem strange to some that the wrath is targeted at those who "destroy the earth", when Revelation is full of visions of angels doing fairly destructive things to the earth, but I think the traditional understanding is that it was the actions (or inactions) of "the nations" that deserved that destruction, so they were ultimately responsible in the sense of being culpable.

It's an interesting point, though, that only in the last 100 years have humans really been able to conceive of "destroying the earth" as something that we are directly capable of.