(Photo of St. Mary's Cemetery in DeKalb, Ill., from Flickr and photographer James Jordan.)
Worried about your carbon footprint? Think it will go away when you die? Think again. A cemetery in Australia has calculated the carbon emissions of cremation versus burial. Cremation releases more CO2 immediately – about 353 lbs. – while burial is only 86. But perpetual care of the grave site adds up over the years and can turn out to emit 10% more. So what’s a body to do? (excuse the pun) Well, the Centennial Park cemetery in Adelaide figures you can offset the whole thing by planting one tree. (Reuters)
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That very post made me to think about carbon footprint, when I went to walk around old cemetery in London, yesterday.
I was thinking, if the researchers in Australia included also the long term positive nutritious effect of old fashionable burying into their calculations (plants, other animals, including microorganisms).
Park, which surrounded me, was just amazing.
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