Anglican bishops: "Give up carbon for Lent"

I hope they purchased carbon offsets for that…

I guess the church could start by not burning thousands of tons of palm fronds around the planet for Ash Wednesday services. That would remove a few tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere (not to mention all the heretics burnt in the past – just think of the carbon footprint of that).

Several prominent Anglican British bishops are urging Christians to keep their carbon consumption in check this Lent.

The 40-day period of penitence before Easter typically sees observant Catholics, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians give up meat, alcohol or chocolates.

But this year’s initiative aims to convince those observing Lent to try a day without an iPod or mobile phone in a bid to reduce the use of electricity – and thus trim the amount of carbon dioxide spewed [good emotive word there – Ed] into the atmosphere.

Bishop of London Rev. Richard Chartres said that the poorest people in developing countries were the hardest hit by man-made climate change.

He said Tuesday that the “Carbon Fast” was “an opportunity to demonstrate the love of God in a practical way.”

Actually, it’s the poorest people in developing countries that will be hit hardest by the global efforts to tackle climate change, denying them cheap energy to raise their standards of living… hardly a Christian good deed, is it?

Read it here.