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Season of Creation: Sept 14

September 14, 2021
By Tracy Abler, Justice Coordinator

SEE

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and a treasure unlike any other. The Amazon rainforest serves as one of Earth’s largest reservoirs of carbon dioxide, helping regulate global climate patterns through the sequestration and storage of carbon dioxide in above-ground bio mass and soil.

Tragically, we might be unwittingly destroying one of our best defenses against climate change. Drought, rising temperatures, and deforestation are mitigating the Amazon’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide and increasing its net carbon emissions. According to AmazonAid.org, experts say that at the current rate of destruction, the Amazon could be gone in 40 years.

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Laudato Si Goals with Response of the Cry of the Poor highlighted

 

 

REFLECT

Quoting Saint John Paul II: Christians in their turn “realize that their responsibility within creation, and their duty towards nature and the Creator, are an essential part of their faith.” - Laudato Si' 64

When nature is viewed solely as a source of profit and gain, this has serious consequences for society. This … has engendered immense inequality, injustice and acts of violence against the majority of humanity, since resources end up in the hands of the first comer or the most powerful: the winner takes all. Completely at odds with this model are the ideals of harmony, justice, fraternity and peace as proposed by Jesus.  - Laudato Si' 82

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Photo from SGI conference in 2019

ACT

CSA works to practice fair and sustainable purchasing by supporting ethical businesses, taking a "total cost of ownership approach" to purchases. Issues of Reflections & Connections, CSA's quarterly publication of mission and ministry stories, are printed on FSC Mix paper. Products that bear this label are made using a mixture of materials from FSC-certified forests, recycled materials, and/or FSC controlled wood. While controlled wood is not from FSC certified forests, it mitigates the risk of the material originating from unacceptable sources.

By becoming aware of where consumer products come from and becoming a mindful consumer, we can do our part to protect places like the Amazon Forest, and help save our planet. The Amazon Aid Foundation provides a list of ways to be a better consumer.

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INTERCESSION

That our actions may help to bring about the urgent and far-reaching transformation needed to restore the health of the planet and prevent severe devastation to life now and in the future, we pray.

 
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