Clerics from the Anglican Church of Canada met in Toronto and started digging for justice. I’m expecting to see giant drills and back-hoes roll past my door any minute.

From here:

As churches, we recognize our internal contradictions and complicity with respect to resource extraction, and the urgent need to practice responsible consumption and citizenship.  Therefore as people of faith who are members of local church congregations, we need to further develop our theological understandings of the issue, address our individual and collective lifestyles, develop an alternative economic model, and challenge the political and economic powers that drive the resource extraction industry. This conference may be a step toward a clear church expression of the need for change.

Oh, I get it, they are not excavating for justice at all: they just don’t like mining. Or consumption; or doing anything that violates the rights of the Earth; or capitalism.

I expect all the attendees, copies of Walden in hand, walked to the conference and shacked up in cardboard boxes under the Gardiner Expressway.