{"id":30737,"date":"2024-05-26T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T00:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=30737"},"modified":"2024-05-26T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T00:33:47","slug":"the-greening-of-justin-welby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-greening-of-justin-welby\/","title":{"rendered":"The greening of Justin Welby"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Church of England is pressuring parishes to install solar panels and heat pumps because it has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2030. Meaningless nonsense, I know, but it would be good to see the figurehead of the Church of England leading the meaningless nonsense by example.<\/p>\n

To the contrary, not content with polluting the spiritual atmosphere with his theological flatulence, he is busy pumping carbon dioxide \u2013 one of the few remaining sins left in the CofE – into the physical atmosphere.<\/p>\n

In the last 10 months he has flown 48,000 miles. Most parishioners would probably be indifferent to these clerical peregrinations if it were not such a stark illustration of the some animals are more equal than others<\/em> principle.<\/p>\n

He used to be an oil industry executive; it’s difficult to kick old habits.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"Justin Welby\u00a0has been dubbed the ‘Archbishop of Airmiles’ and accused of hypocrisy for flying around the world while pressuring congregations to achieve net zero.<\/p>\n

The Archbishop of Canterbury will be travelling to Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Costa Rica later this month having only just returned from Zanzibar.<\/p>\n

Church of England officials and parishioners said their leader had almost become a ‘member of the Foreign Office’, jetting to global hot spots and summits while seemingly ignoring problems at home.<\/p>\n

Analysis by the Daily Mail found that by next month Dr Welby will have travelled at least 48,000 miles on ten trips since last September on a worldwide tour.<\/p>\n

The flights alone would have added at least 15 tons of carbon dioxide emissions to his carbon footprint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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