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Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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