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In the beginning...

In the beginning...

God created the heavens and the earth.

We begin tonight with the state of emergency in California as historic heat fuels dangerous wildfires.

Parts of Australia have been hit by the worst flooding in a century.

South Africa is facing one of its deadliest drought ever.

And the earth's broad-forth vegetation plants yielding seed after their kind.

After their kind.

And trees bearing fruit with seed in them after their kind.

And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, let the waters team with swarms of living creatures.

In the next 30 years, rising sea levels could affect three times more people than previously thought.

There are 150 million people currently living in cities that could be underwater by 2050.

And let the birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.

And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind and the cattle after their kind.

And everything that creeps on the ground.

According to the United Nations Bad Report, up to one million species of plants and animals

are at risk of extinction, many within decades.

And the others warned that the loss of all that biodiversity could pose a threat to human well-being.

And God created man in his own image.

In the image of God, he created him.

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