Protecting Mother Earth is a priority in our Season of Creation. If we are protecting Mother Earth, we will also be protecting the human race. This includes addressing the food systems that provide daily sustenance. The main enemy to this agenda today is war and its effects on human sustenance, both now and in the future. For example, white phosphorus dropped on ‘enemy’ populations destroys human lives in the short term and in the long term, it destroys the source of the human sustenance– farmland.
This is a summary of the first lecture in a six-part series by Fr Peter Knox SJ on lent and ecological conversion. Fr Knox wants us to leave these lectures feeling empowered to make a significant contribution in caring for our common home.
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