The whole Church of England must commit itself to reducing its carbon footprint by over 45 per cent by 2025, according to a leading diocesan bishop.
Church schools must also become “eco-schools” by 2015 and all parishes should be required to produce carbon and energy reports every year, he says.
The three-pronged demand comes from the Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, in a think piece in the December issue of Crux, the Manchester diocesan monthly.
“The whole Church of England must commit itself to reducing its carbon footprint by over 45 per cent by 2025, according to a leading diocesan bishop.”
No worries, bish – it will achieve this through natural wastage.
TEC will kick in its contribution also–whether they want to or not.
I have blogged on this worrying trend recently:
http://sbarnabas.com/blog/2009/11/08/global-warning-a-mega-idol-in-the-21st-century/
The obsession the Church of England has with environmentalism (the new religion of secular Europe with subtle pagan hues) is frankly alarming. Even if the environment IS in trouble- the EU, parliament, education system et al are quite capable to deal with it.
Bishops exist to defend the faith not the earth- and if they could only show half as much passion for defending the Gospel as they do the ozone layer- we would not be in the mess we are in.
If this is what they want- please resign on masse and go and work for Greenpeace- then invite passionate Christians to run the church. Honestly at almost EVERY meeting I go to now at local, Diocesan or national level this is ALL they are talking about….and yet our future is in crisis.
Mother earth is eclipsing God our Father and that is tragic
“requiring parishes to produce annual carbon and energy reports” – this is a specialist job, which if the reports required for selling houses are anything to go by, will require an annual expenditure of £400 plus for each parish. Demanding this at a time when parishes are struggling both with membership declines through death and illness and financial meltdown due to the effects of the recession on their members is extraordinary. It comes hot on the complaint of Littlebourne that church lands have been sold off over its head, the Archdeacon is pinching their vicarage, and their vicar is being replaced by a part-timer, and yet they are expected to just keep coughing up the money to spend on Canterbury bureaucrats.
There is no money for this thanks to financial mismanagement of our funds by the Archbishops’ Council and Church Commissioners and their trustees, something which in all other trusts would have led to personal claims against the trustees for the losses.
So yet another instance of the complete disconnect between the “management” and the “workers” from the Bishop who brought us the chaos of the women bishops fiasco; a man so incompetent he cannot even manage an email account.