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Mikes Pace, speaking up for the Taliban?
Sunscreen, dude. Don't they have the stuff out where you live?
Besides, skin cancer isn't an inevitable consequence of sun exposure. It just raises your risk, that's all.
The human body is a photosensitive biological system. Not as photosensitive as most plants, but still we need light in order to survive, and not just through our eyeballs.
Maybe that's the reason we lost our primate hair. Not because we started wearing clothes, but because we needed the extra vitamin D for our development.