Water and air are divine gifts that have been desecrated by human greed. That greed has rendered pollutants that are turning the land toxic. This is what humans have allowed to happen to the garden that God created and gave to us as stewards to care for and cultivate.

Jesus asked his Father to "forgive them for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34) It is now we who must ask forgiveness, because we are well aware of what is happening, of what we are doing, and of what we are not doing.