The Student, The Nun & The Amazon - Part 3/4

Part 3/4. Sister Dorothy Stang spent the last 22 years of her life fighting to preserve the Amazon rainforest in Brasil, while helping peasant farmers live sustainably in the forest. Sister Dorothys work brought her up against powerful commercial interests: loggers and ranchers pushing ever deeper into the forest, eager for the short-term gain of timber and cheap cattle grass. Sister Dorothy knew their greed for short-term gain not only threatened the landless peasants she strove to empower, but us all. One of her biggest things to motivate Sister Dorothy in her work was the issue of climate change. When I arrived we had six to eight months of rain, we now have four. Each year we have to dig our wells a little deeper, she told me.

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