Vatican Penance: Forgive us our carbon output
The Vatican is to plant trees on a 37-acre tract of land that will be renamed the Vatican climate forest, which will in theory absorb as much carbon dioxide as the Vatican will produce in 2007. In so doing, the Vatican announced, it would become the world's first carbon-neutral state.
"The Book of Genesis tells us of a beginning in which God placed man as guardian over the earth to make it fruitful."
Good ole fashioned perspective:
"After the Vatican agreement was announced, Msgr. Melchor Sánchez de Toca Alameda, an official at the Council for Culture at the Vatican, told the Catholic News Service that buying credits was like doing penance. "One can emit less CO2 by not using heating and not driving a car, or one can do penance by intervening to offset emissions, in this case by planting trees," he said."
