And as the online fire grew in the social media feeds of thousands of strangers, I realized that our fight to protect our forests and our way of life was really a fight to protect the whole world. Lose our forest, I understood now; oceans away, there were floods. Continents away, there were fires and droughts. Many others around the world understood this too – that we were all connected, and that to protect the Amazon was to protect the one home that we all share: Mother Earth.
