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On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

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Pope Francis
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
Chemist
Jesuit
Roman Catholic Priest
Theologian
Writer
Flores
Buenos Aires
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Francisco
Pope Francis I
Pope Francis
Jorge Bergoglio
Franciscus I
Definitive
Imperative
Imperatives
Ethical
Climate
Clear
Change
Ineluctable

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