Last year’s Amazon fires threatened my family and health, but thankfully didn’t harm them. And yet, they took so much — from all of us. — Near the end of August 2019, news broke that São Paulo’s skies had turned black from smoke — even though Brazil’s largest city is more than 3,000 kilometers from where most of the fires raged in the Amazon rainforest. I began to panic. My parents had just retired from the…