Aaron William Perry writes for Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

Our Lady is burning! The Amazon Rainforest— a critical, primary Earth ecosystem often called the “lungs of the world”—is burning. At a time of critical importance for our shared planet—for humanity itself and the myriad species world-wide being affected by ecological destruction—the last thing we need is further deforestation. The last thing we need is further climate-destabilizing carbon-loading in the atmosphere. The last thing we need is the accelerated destruction of Earth’s life-support systems… [READ MORE]