Study sees a Catholic way to help cut carbon

LONDON---Pope Francis I could help reduce global carbon emissions by urging Catholics to return to not eating meat on Fridays, UK researchers said on Tuesday. A team at Cambridge University looked at the impact of a call by bishops in England and Wales in 2011 to reinstate the practice. They found that despite only about a quarter of Catholics changing their dietary habits, more than 55,000 tonnes of carbon were saved each year. In terms of carbon dioxide emissions, that equated to 82,000 fewer people taking a return flight from London to New York over a 12-month period. The researchers said that if meatless Fridays were reintroduced across the world, it could mitigate mi...

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