Once again the ineffable Chris Muir over at Day by Day skewers the administration …
Patrick Richardson has been a journalist for almost 15 years and an inveterate geek all his life. He blogs regularly at www.otherwheregazette.com, which aims to be like another SF magazine, just not so serious.
Both instances are the selling of salvation, just from different churches.
Great cartoon!
The ecofreak movement is basically a neopagan, Gaia-worship made-up religion. The carbon credits are indeed a substitute for indulgences, just as AGW is a substitute for eternal damnation.
“There is no salvation outside of the Church.” Isn’t Al Gore’s “carbon offset” scheme the same kind of schtick that Johannes Tetzel was selling when he came to Germany in 1516? Either way you atone for your sins and become a morally pure individual.