What “Organized Religion” Is Doing
Google Image Remember when the Amazon forest was on fire? It was only a few months ago, but so many things have happened since – more school shootings, mass demonstrations in Latin America and Asia, the impeachment hearings – it’s hard to remember. To refresh your memory, the Amazon region burned at an alarming rate last summer. Tens of thousands of fires laid waste to the world's largest tropical rain forest, mostly in Brazil. The Amazon is called "the lungs of the world," absorbing greenhouse gases that would otherwise harm the planet. It also is home to indigenous people who rely on the forest's resources. But besides fires, much of which are due to global warming, say scientists, the Amazon is being de-forested by rapid commercial and industrial use. Illegal Cutting Most responsible for the deforestation, says the site Save the Amazon Rain Forest, are agriculture, mostly cattle, and the wood industry. And in the latter, it’s the illegal cu...