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Pope Warns to Take Care Of Environment

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Pope Benedict XVI spoke to a sea of youths in Sydney for World Youth Day. He urged the world to take better care of the environment and that we are squandering the earth's resources to satisfy its insatiable appetite for material goods.

This was his strongest-ever messages regarding the environment. He spoke poetically of his flight from Rome to Australia, saying the wondrous views from his plane evoked a profound sense of awe, but the earth's problems were also evident from the sky:

"Perhaps reluctantly, we come to acknowledge that there are scars which
mark the surface of our earth -- erosion, deforestation, the
squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel
an insatiable consumption," he said.

The pope arrived in Sydney on Sunday, and took four days off in Sydney before his appearance today. His visit will end with a papal mass expected to draw 500,000 people on Sunday.