My feeling is that God has nothing to do with this. It is our moral responsibility to speak up about protecting our land and way of living when we can do so, whether a bishop or an ordinary citizen who has an opportunity to be heard. No government, through action or through negligence, has the right to allow one small group to gain financially at the cost of survival of the much larger group, in this case, possibly the whole planet. We had better all learn to work together, to help those who may desperately need help growing food by providing them information on techniques, natural fertilization, and so on, while penalizing those who violate national values of rainforest protection (in the case of Brazil).

Two countries that I know of, Japan and the Dominican Republic, took strong (in the latter case even violent) steps to protect their forests, and as a result their national environments are strong and contribute to their economies. Those who unfortunately, through weakened governments or bad policies, allow their forests to be destroyed, are in deep trouble long-term. Haiti is one such case.