“Humility is the answer in the Benedictine Rule, too – the virtue that answers pride, the sin by which the angels fell. It is hard to imagine more egregious hubris than breaking circles and cycles of nature that have sustained all life since the beginning. How blind does one have to be to think we can keep pumping toxic plastics into the environment and ourselves, that we can continue burning fossil fuels in a profligacy that undoes the atmosphere that sustains us?”