Today’s Life-Line is:
To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin. … For humans to cause species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity of God’s creation, for humans to degrade the integrity of the earth by stripping the earth of its natural forests, or destroying its wetlands … for humans to contaminate the earth’s water, its land, its air, and its life with poisonous substances … these are sins.
~ Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Orthodox Churches