Day 9: Seeking a Heart of Conversion
When we look around, we can see that something is wrong. Creation is speaking to us and we hear the “cry of the earth and the poor.”
Cecilia Calvo is the senior advisor on environmental justice of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States' Office of Justice and Ecology. Calvo is an expert on environmental issues, including climate change, children’s health, and natural resource policy, and has worked domestically and internationally to help respond to these challenges. Previously, Calvo worked at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, coordinating the environmental justice program.
When we look around, we can see that something is wrong. Creation is speaking to us and we hear the “cry of the earth and the poor.”
Our society, driven by a “throwaway culture,” discards not only things but people as “leftovers,” whether it is the poor and vulnerable who suffer most from climate change or indigenous peoples who have been displaced from their lands or seen their water contaminated due to an economic system that prioritizes profit over people and the common good.
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