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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -
Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday that mankind's "insatiable consumption" has scarred the Earth and squandered its resources. He told followers that taking care of the planet is vital to humanity.The 81-year-old pontiff gave his first major speech for Roman Catholicism's World Youth Day before adoring crowds who had traveled from 168 countries to see him in Australia's largest city.He noted that during his more than 20-hour flight from Rome to Sydney he had a bird's eye view of a vast swath of the world that inspired awe and introspection."Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also 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.
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