Our Lady’s Missionaries have been involved with the Ecologos Institute for about four years. You might be interested in reading an excerpt from an e-mail that we recently received from them:
“Water is the first need of all life. For us humans, it’s 75% of our bodies and 95% of our blood. You can’t get much more basic than that.
Yet, everywhere water is being polluted by horrible substances. The trend is far from being turned around. Take the Great Lakes for example. Pollution multiplies at an alarming rate. Lake Erie is once again on the verge of collapsing as a life form. And large parts of the other lakes and their tributaries are near the same point. What are we thinking? Imagine the terrifying impact for North America if this continues. This same tragic trajectory being experienced by the Great Lakes is repeated in waterway after waterway across the earth.
The hour is already late. It takes time and enormous effort to turn back the chemical trajectory of bodies of water. The time to act is now. We have a plan, and we’re hopeful, inspired and excited by the possibilities for drawing large numbers of citizens into action. We have a pool of talented, dedicated people with the skills needed to reach out like we never have before through social networks and on-the-ground collaborations so that citizens are empowered to clean and secure the water they depend on.”
Find out more at www.ecologos.ca