Kali represents the divine mother. The nurturing mother. As we deny our own nurturing mothering intuitive feminine nature we become more and more wrathful and destructive and cling to our egotistical illusions. In our denial of our clinging to our illusions kali becomes wrathful she must then rip us from our illusions. This manifests in the world as nature. Nature is kali and we may very well be in kali yuga.
Our consciousness is nature, there is no separation. Think of all of the negative energy stored in our subconscious. All of the suppressed emotions and feelings manifest AS nature. They are the goddess and the world is her manifestation. They become wrathful kali in our own suppression and denial. We are manifesting our own selfish egotistical clingy nature into nature itself. Which manifests as natural disasters and dirty earth and global warming and pollution. All of that arises from our selfish egotistical clinginess. Clinging on our oil and our cigarettes. And all of our toxic poisons that we wont let go of because we wont face our repressed energy. In this act we transmute the goddess into our own wrath.
In the shift that is occurring we are choosing whether we want to cling and turn kali into a wrathful manifestation who needs to chop us from our clingy egoistic denial repressed. Or if we work on ourselves and let go of that old self she will be the divine goddess that she is. The one who allows death so that rebirth can take effect. There is no new beginning without at once letting go of the old unless your mother takes it away from you because she knows that its right for you and your environment.