"The sheer amount of barbed-wire fencing," he said, showed that "what those men there were thinking was no good for the majority of humankind, especially for the poor".
When the pope calls to defend "the poor of the planet", this extends beyond humankind to include all species and resources of Earth, Remond says.
It's got high and low, rich and poor, models and bike messengers, an incredible array of humankind that flows like a river in both directions.
Of the 195 countries present at the UN climate conference in Paris, 106 of the poorest have said a target of 1.5C is the only acceptable pathway for humankind.
One might say that Mother Teresa's compassion towards poor sufferers springs from her gratitude to Christ for his compassion towards her and all humankind.
Diseases caused by parasites such as malaria have been with humankind for millennia and constitute a major global health problem affecting the world's poorest populations and represent a huge barrier to improving human health and wellbeing.
The disputed issues include the causes of increased global average air temperature, especially since the mid-20th century, whether this warming trend is unprecedented or within normal climatic variations, whether humankind has contributed significantly to it, and whether the increase is wholly or partially an artifact of poor measurements.
Never before did humankind have the resources and capacity to do so much good, to reach so many, to work with the poor and oppressed, to promote human transformation, to seek justice.
There are 2 main reasons for this: first, the most recent estimate of the prevalence of HTLV-1 is 5 10 million persons worldwide, with the important caveat that 86% of the global population is data poor in this regard [ 1]; second, there is a perception that disease related to this virus, which has coexisted with humankind for 60 000 years, is uncommon.
Humour is native to humankind.
