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Confessing your carbon sins

GWYN MORGAN

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A cartoon in The New York Times brilliantly captured the mentality behind the latest green trend. It showed a man kneeling at the confessional praying, “Forgive me, but I have SUV'd.” The minister takes the proffered bag of money and replies, “Go thy way, thy sins are offset.

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