The climate crisis is on track to become the most far-reaching and catastrophic disaster the Earth has ever known. This image is an aerial view from space of the 2020 Brazilian rainforest fires. (Photo: OSORIOartist/Shutterstock) The climate crisis is on track to become the most far-reaching and catastrophic disaster the Earth has ever known. This image is an aerial view from space of the 2020 Brazilian rainforest fires. (Photo: OSORIOartist/Shutterstock)

My team and I closed the May 2021 issue of NU Property & Casualty magazine just ahead of Earth Day, the annual event developed more than a half-century ago to raise awareness of environmental protection initiatives and the peace movement.

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