Official: Pollution is a sin!

It's not likely to be often that Earth Dream agrees with the Catholic Church. In fact some of our favourite passtimes are probably technically sins. But over the weekend the Vatican's number 2 on the subject of sinning Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti spoke of modern evils and listed "ecological" offences including pollution.

Good stuff then, although if we know anything about religion (we don't but stick with us) this means that anyone of the Catholic faith can chuck as much litter about as they like provided they make a confession once in a while and say a few hail mary's.

Actually something else Earth Dream learned related to this story was that under the guidance of the current pope the Vatican has installed a load of solar panels to provide green energy (I mean they need light to count all that gold obviously). Now if they can just see their way to telling Africans that it is actually OK to use condoms then they might really go up in our estimation.

More on this story from Reuters.