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Pope Francis is demanding swift action to save the planet from environmental ruin, plunging the Catholic Church into political controversy over climate change. Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan John Zizioulas presented the document at a Vatican news conference. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slams multinational corporations for turning the world's ecosystems into "playthings of profit" and warns failure to change course would lead to catastrophic results."With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction," he says, in a speech ahead of biodiversity talks in Montreal. SOUNDBITE