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FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Ecological debt is a spiritual issue

“Nature is our home,” said Dr. Maria Sumire Conde from the Quecha community of Peru. Taxi Heathrow Airport She says some of those who have come there, however, have not been good guests. In a 31 August hearing on “ecological debt” during the World Council of Churches Central Committee meetings in Geneva, Sumire and others shared some of the ways that the global South has frequently been victimized by greed and unfair use of its resources.