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Mount Pinatubo Homeless, Philippines, 1998

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"Left homeless by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, Lolita Mechado begs for money along a road within sight of Mount Arayat, a long-quiet volcano."

—From "Unlocking the Climate Puzzle," May 1998, National Geographic magazine
Photograph by Joanna B. Pinneo

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